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Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English
Abstract
Galley copies of books delivered to Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., apparently for review. Gates is a distinguished scholar
of African-American history at Harvard University. See Scope and Content Note for contents list.
Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Professor, Galley Copies of Books, A&M 4038,
West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr., (born September 16, 1950) is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the
Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Literary scholar, filmmaker, journalist,
cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored seventeen books and created thirteen documentary films
and film series. Having written for such leading publications as "The New Yorker", "The New York Times", and "Time", Professor
Gates serves as editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com and oversees the Oxford African American Studies Center. [Adapted from Wikipedia,
2014-09-23.]
There are two books in the History Center book collection regarding the history of the Gates family:
1. Ailes, Jane E. The Descendants of Jane Gates . Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2008. (WVC, 929.2, G222ai)
2. Ailes, Jane and Johnik Cerny. Ancestors of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia from Africa, West Africa, and Europe . Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010. (WVC, 929.2, G222an)
Galley copies of books delivered to Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., apparently for review. Gates is a distinguished scholar
of African-American history at Harvard University.
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1995
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1991
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2000
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1996
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1997
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1998
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1997
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