William Monroe Trotter
American newspaper founder, African-American civil rights activist (1872-1934) · United States · Died at 62
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Something wrong?William Monroe Trotter, sometimes just Monroe Trotter, was an American newspaper editor and real estate businessman based in Boston, Massachusetts. An activist for African-American civil rights, he was an early opponent of the accommodationist race policies of Booker T.
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Trotter's father James, 1881 engraving
Booker T. Washington giving a speech at Carnegie Hall in New York City, 1909
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1904 photo
Political cartoon about the 1912 presidential election, depicting Theodore Roosevelt (cowboy hat), Woodrow Wilson (cap), and William Howard Taft (top hat)
The William Monroe Trotter House in Dorchester
Theatrical poster for The Birth of a NationAbout this person
William Monroe Trotter, sometimes just Monroe Trotter, was an American newspaper editor and real estate businessman based in Boston, Massachusetts. An activist for African-American civil rights, he was an early opponent of the accommodationist race policies of Booker T. Washington, and in 1901 founded the Boston Guardian, an independent African-American newspaper he used to express that opposition. Active in protest movements for civil rights throughout the 1900s and 1910s, he also revealed some of the differences within the African-American community. He contributed to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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