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Season 11 Episode
- Season 1 Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.
- Season 1 John Lewis and Cory Booker
- Season 1 Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada
- Season 1 Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon
- Season 1 Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi
- Season 1 Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Season 1 Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons
- Season 1 Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta
- Season 1 John Legend and Wanda Sykes
- Season 1 Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez
Finding Your Roots - Season 1 Episode 4 Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon
6.80 60 minutes What do Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have in common? They are both famous actors and both descend from prominent American families that have been in this country since its inception. But they share something else, too: both had ancestors who were early opponents of slavery. Bacon's Quaker ancestors repudiated slavery long before the rest of the country, in 1780. And Sedgwick's ancestor Theodore Sedgwick argued the freedom case of Elizabeth Freeman, also known as "Mumbet," in 1781 -- which helped bring an end to slavery in Massachusetts. We reveal this fact - and many others - to Sedgwick and Bacon in this episode, and learn quite a bit about slavery in the North in the process.
