Finding Your Roots S1E2 — John Lewis and Cory Booker

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Finding Your Roots•Season 1•Episode 2

John Lewis and Cory Booker

7.9/10 · 71 votesMar 24, 201260 min

Ranked #4 of 10 in Season 1•+0.1 vs season avg

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In this episode, we feature two African American politicians from different generations and opposite backgrounds. John Lewis grew up in a sharecropping family in rural Georgia, while Cory Booker was raised in an affluent, all-white New Jersey suburb. Although both men have devoted their lives

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E1 8.0

Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.

E2 7.9Now viewing

John Lewis and Cory Booker

E3 7.9

Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada

E4 7.9

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

E5 6.9

Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi

E6 7.9

Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal

E7 8.0

Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons

E8 8.0

Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta

E9 7.8

John Legend and Wanda Sykes

E10 7.7

Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez

Cast1

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Self - Host

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Episode Summary

"John Lewis and Cory Booker" is episode 2 of Finding Your Roots season 1. It scored 7.9/10 from 71 votes, ranking #4 of 10 episodes this season (season average 7.8). It aired on March 24, 2012.

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