Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter

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Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter

Title remainder

the life and times of William Monroe Trotter

Statement of responsibility

Kerri K. Greenidge

Title variation

Life and times of William Monroe Trotter

Creator

• Greenidge, Kerri

Subject

• African American journalists -- Massachusetts | Boston -- Biography
• African American radicals -- Biography
• African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964
• African Americans -- Politics and government -- 1877-1964
• Boston guardian -- Biography
• African American civil rights workers -- Massachusetts | Boston -- Biography
• Trotter, William Monroe, 1872-1934
• United States -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
• United States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
• Journalists -- Massachusetts | Boston -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"This long-overdue biography reestablishes William Monroe Trotter's essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and King in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. William Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized black working- class citizens to wield their political power despite the violent racism of post- Reconstruction America. For more than thirty years, the Harvard-educated Trotter edited and published the Guardian, a weekly Boston newspaper that was read across the nation. Defining himself against the gradualist politics of Booker T. Washington and the elitism of W. E. B. Du Bois, Trotter advocated for a radical vision of black liberation that prefigured leaders such as Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. Synthesizing years of archival research, historian Kerri Greenidge renders the drama of turn- of- the- century America and reclaims Trotter as a seminal figure, whose prophetic, yet ultimately tragic, life offers a link between the vision of Frederick Douglass and black radicalism in the modern era"--

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individual biography

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non fiction

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bibliography