A Black activist learned the shocking revelation on PBS' 'Finding Your Roots' that she descended from one of the earliest American settlers who arrived via the Mayflower in 1620.
The lifelong far-left activist associated with The Black Panther and Communist Party was overwhelmed by the revelation she descended from one of America's first settlers on PBS' "Finding Your Roots."was shocked to learn she is a Mayflower descendent on Tuesday's episode of"Finding Your Roots" on PBS.
Near the end of the episode, after discussing multiple members of her family, the former Black Panther learned she descended from William Brewster, one of the 101 people who came to the colonies in 1620 aboard the Mayflower. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the show’s host and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, shared a clip from the episode on Twitter.
"Would you ever in your wildest dreams think that you may have been descended from the people who laid the foundation of this country?" he asked.Activist Angela Davis arrives for the gala presentation of the film"Free Angela and All Political Prisoners", based on her life, at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival, September 9, 2012. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
"I find moments like this fascinating. I can trace all of my ancestors—two of whom are still living—to four ocean crossings between 1949 and 1952," NPR producer Julian Hayda wrote."To think that one's roots can go back 400 years—with tens of thousands of people between slave ships and the Mayflower is astonishing."
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