and then tufts university professor recounts the life of william monro trotter, a late 19th century civilrights activist who used his wealth and leadership of the african-american newspaper the boston garden to promote racial equality. >> tonight on "the communicators" mark randolph, cofounder of netflix and author of the book, that will never work, shares his experiences starting the online streaming service. >> on april 14, 1998, our cto hit a few keys and we were life. and it didn't take long and we got that first ding and we cheered and we began opening bottles of champagne and then two or three minutes later, ding, ding, ding three more orders. we were so excited and then we got two more orders and in all the excitement we kind of lost track of things until someone noticed that it's been a while since the bell has wrong. is it unplugged? was her problem? it turned out out in the first5 minutes of being online we crashed all of our servers. >> mark randolph tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on "the communicators" on c-span2. >> you're watching special edition of booktv now airing during the w