Black radical, the life and times of William Monroe Trotter, Kerri K. Greenidge
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Black radical, the life and times of William Monroe Trotter, Kerri K. Greenidge
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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individual biography
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Black radical
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1114271728
Responsibility statement
Kerri K. Greenidge
Sub title
the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
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"--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Looking out from the dark tower -- Abolition's legacy : radical racial uplift and political independence -- Becoming the guardian : perils of conservative racial uplift -- The greatest race paper in the nation -- Of riots, suffrage leagues and the Niagara Movement -- Negrowump revival -- The new Negro legacy of the Trotter-Wilson conflict -- From Birth of a Nation to the National Race Congress -- Liberty's Congress -- The stormy petrel of the times -- Old Mon
Target audience
adult
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Life and times of William Monroe Trotter
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- Boston guardian -- Biography
- Black interest
- African Americans + History -- 1877-1964
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- African American journalists -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- Trotter, William Monroe, 1872-1934
- Journalists -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography
- African Americans + Politics and government -- 1877-1964
- African American radicals -- Biography
- African American civil rights workers -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography
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- Boston guardian -- Biography
- Black interest
- African Americans + History -- 1877-1964
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- African American journalists -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- Trotter, William Monroe, 1872-1934
- Journalists -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography
- African Americans + Politics and government -- 1877-1964
- African American radicals -- Biography
- African American civil rights workers -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography
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