edward gates senior was married to maud fortune-gates. they had three daughters and a son. edward saint-lawrence gates is my grandfather. - okay. - his three sisters were sent to college at the turn of the century. isn't that amazing? - it is amazing. - it is amazing. - right. - and they said, a woman needs to have an education to protect herself. - [evan] right. - the son inherited the 200-acre farm. - what's interesting to me though and of course you're associated most closely with an institution, harvard, that is the elite of the elite, right? so it's not entirely just this. - no i'm a yale. - well i know that but now. i mean once a yaley always a yaley but you're the harvard guy now. - that's true. - but as i think about this series, and i think about the time since martin luther king to today, the stories that you were telling of black america are not the elite black america stories or at least that exclusively or mostly. - no, no not at all. - right so you come to the task of telling the story of a black america that is in many respects not your black america. - right,