so who was william monroe trotter? why was he alone among contemporaries in protesting, unapoll getically radically in the face of white reconstruction betrayal at the turn of the last century? most importantly how do his life and times demand scholarly reconcept dualization during the period that the historians say at the turn of the last century. william monroe trotter was born in 1872, the year that liberal republicans broke from their radical colleagues to oppose federal enforcement of the reconstruction amendment. he died exactly 62 years later as democratic president franklin d. roosevelt presided over an administration that fundamentally changed the relationship between federal policy and the american economy. book ended as he was, between the failed promise of radical reconstruction and the racial limitations of new deal liberalism, william monroe trotter's life reflects northern black politics rooted in antebellum abolition. trotter's life conceptualizes as that existed in the urban predominantly northeast and

yes. >> what was the response of william trotter to the guardian? >> garvey was inspired by trotter and i go through this in the paper area garvey wrote when trotter died, garvey wrote a letter that was published both in the negro world and kind of as a punching comment on garvey is in the crisis that trotter was the most noble, what did he call it? the most noble of all the race. the race could have afforded to lose many other leaders area we cannot afford to lose william monroe trotter garvey ne, one of the things he would do to inspire members of the cross the african diaspora is to donate money, that he took the ship that trotter took to paris read that ship, he turned into the blackstar line so the ship that trotter used and he used that as a selling point to the black public . an image in 1919 of an activist named henrietta ncvincent davis holding a rally in kingston jamaica to get people to support garvey , when people are giving money he holds up a copy of the guardian and he says you have to give money because this is trotter's book and he t

. >> i was wondering if rose had any relationship with william trotter who was a contemporary of w e b du bois? >> not that i know of. not that i know of. i wish i could say more than that. his name doesn't show up in her papers. i know a little about him but his name does not show up. >> i know they were involved with the niagara movement around -- >> it was later du bois, that they knew him in 1908, 1910 but not farther than i know of. >> i was just wondering, her husband's parents, part of their wealth came from coal mining if their workers were unionized and if rose ever made an attempt to influence them? >> not coal mining but gold and silver mining is originally going back a generation, copper mining. rose was never involved with the mine workers union because all of the actual labor organizing, speaking to striking workers and so on was mostly in or around new york city, not much mining there but now. the answer is no. >> would have made it a better story if that had been the case but unfortunately not. >> you talk about a cinderella story for rose and i was wondering what hid

. >> did rose have any relationship with william trotter who was a contemporary?>> not that i know of. i wish i could say more but his name does not show up in her papers not as a correspondence. >> i know they were involved with the niagara movement. >> they did not know the boys until later maybe 1910 but not trotter that i know of. >> i'm just wondering, you said her husband's parents the wealth came from coal mining to the ever make any attempt to influence them? >> not coal mining but gold and silver mining and copper mining. never involved because all of the actual labor organizing to extract workers was in and around new york city. so the answer is no. this and make it a better story of that's the case but unfortunately not. >> hello. talk about a cinderella story so i am wondering what untold truth you hope to have conveyed in your book? >> and no way i would pay tribute to both of them for to come out of the world that they were born in. but for graham to do something as radical for someone as to marry a factory worker not only a factory worker by the rus

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

. >> coming up on c-span2, university professor kerri greenidge recounts the life of william munro trotter a civil rights activist. he used the boston guardian to promote racial equality area that followed by journalist lawrence weschler on the late neurologist and officer oliver sacks and eugenia chang, author of beyond infinity explores the limits of logic . >> 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 . >> april 14, 1998 i our cto hit a few keys and we were live and it didn't take long and we got that first thing. how we cheered and again opening bottles of champagne and then two or three minutes later, ding ding, three more orders and 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 rung . and we were unplugged, is there a problem? it turned out in the first 15 minutes of being online we had crashed all of our servers. >> mark randolph t