Leslie Odom, Jr.’s Great-Grandfather Comes to America
Season 8
Episode 8
About the Episode
Leslie Odom, Jr. looks over a ship's manifest that could document his great-grandfather's arrival in the U.S. as a ship's crewman from England in 1920.
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