William Monroe Trotter was the most fiery, passionate, and uncompromising fighter for African-American civil rights in the early 20th century.

McKinney provided historical background on William Trotter, for whom the Trotter Multicultural Center was named, relating the history of Trotter to students’ ability to gain and exhibit self ...

The Niagara Movement was formed by famed author and sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois and newspaper publisher William Monroe Trotter in 1905. They combined to challenge Booker T. Washington, the de facto ...

And his father, James Monroe Trotter, for his exploits in the Civil War, was awarded a position as head of the federal post office in Boston and moved to Boston in 1868. And Trotter was born in 1872.

Among other initiatives to help Black students facing marginalization at the University, students in the Black Action Movement spearheaded the 1971 opening of the Trotter House, a Black student ...

Washington “understood the language, the culture, the customs, the rules of the South in a way that W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter did not,” Du Bois scholar Chad Williams says in ...

Some people believe Trotter to be a descendant of one of Thomas Jefferson’s slaves at Monticello in Virginia. It might very well be true as ancillary evidence supports that belief. But William Monroe ...

The Gullah Geechee Chamber of Commerce and the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government have partnered to create an economic ...

Barbara Lewis, PhD Associate Professor and Director of the Trotter Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston Barbara Lewis is an Associate Professor of English at the College of Liberal Arts and ...

The panel, co-hosted by the IOP and the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice, was part of a campaign calling on President Joe Biden to issue a posthumous pardon for House, known ...