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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: NPR - Henry Louis Gates Jr.: A Life Spent Tracing Roots. | Oct 23, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Sep 12, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Television Academy - PBS Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Which Classic TV Western is One of His Favorites. | Mar 11, 2026 | ||
| Cross-reference added. | Aug 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fresh Air Archive - Henry Louis Gates. | Aug 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Yale University - Yale 2025 - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 73 B.A. | Jun 25, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Henry Louis Gates Jr.: A Life Spent Tracing Roots. | May 16, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - Meet Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Feb 01, 2025 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Dec 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pew Research Center - The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Jun 26, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: All American Entertainment Speakers - Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | May 03, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Jan 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Henry Louis Gates Jr. As Literary Critic. | Nov 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Endowment for the Humanities - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | May 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The HistoryMakers - Biography of Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. | Mar 04, 2023 | ||
| Link added. | Jan 25, 2023 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 28, 2022 | ||
| Added the book The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song. | Feb 22, 2022 | ||
| Added the PBS series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War and mentioned his 2019 book on the topic. | Apr 12, 2019 | ||
| Added his various television series, including Finding Your Roots. | Jun 22, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: African American Registry - Henry Louis Gates Jr., Educator born. | Oct 24, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Jan 12, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS SoCal - The HistoryMakers - A Conversation with Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. | Jan 12, 2012 | ||
| Added image of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Sgt. James Crowley; and Pres. Barack Obama at the "beer summit" in the Rose Garden at the White House, 2009. | Mar 29, 2011 | ||
| Removed reference to Gates being on vacation before his arrest, as he was doing research in China. | Sep 18, 2009 | ||
| Added Gates's 2009 arrest and his subsequent "beer summit" meeting with Barack Obama. | Sep 17, 2009 | ||
| Article revised. | Dec 17, 2004 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jan 12, 2000 |
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