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Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He discovered what are considered the earliest known literary works of African-American writers, and has published extensively on appreciating African-American literature as part of the Western canon.
Birth Name
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Born
Saturday, 16 September 1950
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| Making Black America: Through the Grapevine | Self | 2022 |
| Making Black America with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Self | 2022 |
| Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches | Self | 2022 |
| The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song | Self | 2021 |
| John Lewis: Good Trouble | Self | 2020 |
| Watchmen | Skip Gates | 2019 |
| Railroad Ties | (as Henry Louis Gates) | 2019 |
| Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America | Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker | 2019 |
| Reconstruction: America after The Civil War | Self - Host | 2019 |
| Not Black Enough | Self | 2017 |
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