decades later, in nashville, it happened again lucretia's cousin, ronnie miller, lives in what was once a vibrant business district run by black families his was one of them. >> they had a grocery store. they had a restaurant. they had an ice cream parlor they had a whole block, just about. >> reporter: the city claimed that land to make room for new businesses and the construction of an interstate >> for them it was devastating. >> reporter: that highway helped birth the guthrie family's multimillion-dollar auto parts company in kentucky. both ronnie and lucretia say they don't fault anyone today for actions of those long gone. >> but i would ask, how are you making sense of what you're learning how will this shape your decisions going forward? >> reporter: lucretia says that work still has a long way to go, in the classroom and in congress blayne alexander, nbc news, linden, tennessee. >>> coming up, as we continue tonight, team usa gymnasts soaring at the world championships. we're there tonight as they make history, next. >>> finally, simone biles has done it again, leading the u.s.

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>> it says that power is generational >> reporter: lucretia discovered her ancestors were enslaved byect descendants of brett guthrie of kentucky. we made repeated attempts to speak with the congressman he did not respond >> i come from a legacy of teachers and farmers, and i think education is an incredible legacy, but that doesn't necessarily come with vast amounts of economic power. political power. >> reporter: after emancipation, while both families did face their share of struggles and successes, reuters' analysis shows that for lucretia's family, the craigs, a hard won advance was often accompanied by a setback. the guthries found protection in bankruptcy, an option not blacts at the time. in nashville it happened again ronny miller lives in what was once a vibrant business district run by brlack families. his was one of them. >> they had a grocery store, a restaurant, an ice cream parlor. >> then it was devastating >> reporter: the highway helped with spirit the guthrie family's auto parts company both say they don't fault anyone today for the actions of those long gone. >> bu

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off the inscription, saying the names of these women, elizabeth cady stanton and susan b, anthony, lucretia mott and it sat there until i think it was like 1997 because, you know, you know, you don't really want to remember those people with this weird need to put down these women that we don't have with our other senators. mm hmm. that's that's that's a really depressing insight. but but, you know, that's so striking insight. and also, you mentioned so we gradually with these rights and you talk about public speaking and one of the many things i love about your book is you talk about antique feminists who benefit from these rights like the right to speak in public in order to proclaim the anti feminist message. and we see that all the way up. obviously to the present day and and it is just sort of help us know how to think about that and maybe talk about why you included some of the women in your book who represent that strain. okay, i'm going to take advantage of these rights that you all have one, and i'm going to proclaim against your message like phyllis schlafly, obviously. so one of

lucretia, the mother's family, dated back to the mayflower. >> reporter: a moneyed world where moneyight always and if i'm ever wrong, i will use all the means at my disposal to bend and align reality in such a way that my mistake ceases to be a mistake. >> reporter: that's a shocking notion. >> it is a shocking notion. >> reporter: in the style of the great man memoir, he pontificates about manipulating markets during the crazy booming 1920s. and then again when wall street crashes in 1929, his fortune growing exponentially while other people are ruined. then diaz twists the kaleidoscope. so readers see the man's wife through her diary. >> as i started reading about american finance and the history of money making in america, it became absolutely apparent that this was a male world, an utterly womanless world, and it was crushing also during my research and going through the papers of these, the wives of real american tycoons, to see how suffocating and claustrophobic most of their lives were. >> reporter: diaz researchers like the ph.d. scholar he is. and then sets about myth-busti