Black Radical reclaims William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934) as a seminal figure whose prophetic yet ultimately tragic--and all too often forgotten--Life offers a link from Frederick Douglass to Black Lives Matter.
Greenidge renders the drama of turn-of-the-century America, showing how Trotter, a Harvard graduate, a newspaperman and an activist, galvanized Black working-class citizens to wield their political power despite the virulent racism of post-Reconstruction.
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Black Radical reclaims William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934) as a seminal figure whose prophetic yet ultimately tragic--and all too often forgotten--Life offers a link from Frederick Douglass to Black Lives Matter