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1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 44 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Bill Andrew Quinn. |
| Summary |
William Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), although 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, one 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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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Trotter, William Monroe, 1872-1934.
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African American radicals -- United States -- Biography.
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African American civil rights workers -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
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African American journalists -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
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Journalists -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Politics and government -- 1877-1964.
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African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Quinn, Bill Andrew, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Life and times of William Monroe Trotter |
| ISBN |
9781974986880 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1974986888 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12597883 |
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