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	The T. Rex Essay - Writings on History: William Monroe Trotter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The foundation of Trotter's importance was his fl newspaper, The Guardian, which, from the beginning was truly little more than a forum for Trotter to voice his opinions and a place for him to seek to influence the race situation in the United States.
		In later years, Trotter would tone down his opposition to the NAACP and work with them on several occasions, although he refused to ever join the organization, instead helming a number of his own organizations, where he could exhibit more control and where fls could be in charge.
		Trotter is clearly established as a prominent leader of the race.
	quinnell.us /society/history/trotter.html (654 words)

	Dorchester Reporter, Dorchester MA USA
		On April 7, 1872, William Monroe Trotter was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, one of the three children of James Monroe Trotter and Virginia Isaac Trotter.
		Trotter's feud with Washington and his policies of "appeasement with whites" came to a head on July 30, 1903, at the Columbus Avenue African Zion Church in Boston.
		Trotter, several of his foes contended, was the "bomb-tosser," but no one would prove it to a certainty.
	www.dotnews.com /trotter.html (952 words)

	Black History Month Essay #1
		This paper argues that William Monroe Trotter was a major force in countering the movement towards greater prejudice and segregation in the early 1900s.
		Trotter was convinced that the Republicans had become as stagnant in support of civil rights as their devoted supporter Booker T. Washington, the Wizard of Tuskegee.
		Monroe Trotter had demonstrated that Booker T. Washington was not the only face of Black America and that he was not afraid to defy conventions and challenge even the highest authority in the land.
	spot.pcc.edu /~jharriso/black_history_month_essay1_2005.htm (2254 words)

	William Monroe Trotter -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934), born Springfield Township, (A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region) Ohio, was an (An American whose ancestors were born in Africa) African-American (A daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements) newspaper editor and protest leader.
		As a political activist, he led protests against segregation in the federal government, led pickets against the (additional info and facts about Birth of a Nation) Birth of a Nation, and defended the (additional info and facts about Scottsboro Boys) Scottsboro Boys.
		Trotter, who had been one of the founders of the (additional info and facts about Niagara Movement) Niagara Movement in 1905, withdrew to form the National Equal Rights League.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_monroe_trotter.htm (210 words)

	African American Registry: William Monroe Trotter set an example for expressing protest
		He founded the Boston Guardian, a militant newspaper, in 1901, for the purpose of "propaganda against discrimination." In 1905, Trotter assisted in founding the Niagara Movement but refused to join the NAACP because he felt it to be too moderate and instead formed the National Equal Rights League.
		In 1903, Trotter deliberately disrupted a meeting in Boston at which Booker T. Washington was scheduled to speak; his arrest was to gain publicity for his militant position.
		William Monroe Trotter died on April 7, 1934 in Boston.
	aaregistry.com /african_american_history/51/... (268 words)

	Negro History Bulletin: The Wickersham Commission and William Monroe Trotter
		Trotter was more militant, independent-thinking, and rigidly moralistic than most fellow members of the so-called "talented tenth" (the term coined to describe the college-educated fl professional class whom many regarded as the rightful leaders of the race).
		Trotter's uncompromising position toward racism was certainly a natural one for him to take, given that his father, James Monroe Trotter, was also somewhat of a radical.
		Later, Trotter and Du Bois were among the leaders of the "Niagara Movement" of 1905 and in 1909 met with a group of liberal whites to form the National Negro Committee which anticipated the formation of the National Association of Colored People a few years later.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1157/is_1_62/ai_73581590 (1278 words)

	William Monroe Trotter -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9399798?tocId=9399798 (798 words)

	Search Tuna Report for William Monroe Trotter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Monroe Trotter is ordered out of the White House when he protests to President Wilson the segregation of African American federal employees in the workplace.....
		But, like its West Coast counterpart, the William Monroe Trotter School, in Beantown's poor Roxbury section, was built as a showcase for new methods of teaching--enough of a showcase, it was hoped, to attract white children to a fl neighborhood for their schooling....
		William Monroe Trotter was born on April 7, 1872, in Springfield Township, Ohio....
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	The Trotter Group - Who Was William Monroe Trotter?
		ON NOVEMBER 12, 1914, William Monroe Trotter, editor of the Guardian newspaper, went to the White House to confront President Woodrow Wilson.
		Trotter had supported Wilson's election, but lynching was flaring up, and segregation was more rigid than ever.
		Trotter's legacy of lone wolf protest, which included confronting the president of the United States, cannot be forgotten.
	www.trottergroup.com /trotter.htm (347 words)

	We Shall Overcome -- William Monroe Trotter House
		Harvard-educated newspaper editor William Monroe Trotter, who lived in this house for most of his career, spoke out against the racism of the early 20th century.
		In 1903, after he interrupted a speech Washington was delivering, Trotter was arrested and jailed for one month.
		The William Monroe Trotter House, a National Historic Landmark, is located at 97 Sawyer Avenue in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/civilrights/ma1.htm (287 words)

	Mark Schneider \| The Boston NAACP and the Decline of the Abolitionist Impulse \| The Massachusetts Historical Review, 1 ...
		William J. Knox, Jr., a New Bedford youth whose family was active in the NAACP, received an assignment to Standish Hall.
		The move was a striking one for both parties, since Trotter had vilified Lodge in his newspaper in 1906 after the Brownsville, Texas, affair: Lodge had refused to back a congressional investigation into this infamous case, which resulted in the dishonorable discharge of many African American soldiers.
		Trotter, who had strong family ties to the abolitionist movement, simply trailed into insignificance by the late 1920s and died—probably a suicide—in 1934.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/mhr/1/schneider.html (7620 words)

	Human Rights
		William Monroe Trotter was perhaps the most militant of the known civil rights activist of the 19th century.
		An honor student and Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, Trotter founded the Boston Guardian, a militant newspaper, in 1901, for the purpose of "propaganda against discrimination." In 1905, Trotter assisted in founding the Niagara Movement but refused to join the NAACP because he felt it to be too moderate.
		In 1903, Trotter deliberately disrupted a meeting in Boston at which Booker T. Washington was to be arrested to gain publicity for militant position.
	www.sis.pitt.edu /resources/diversity/naa/human.html (433 words)

	The Trotter Group: Black voices in corporate-owned media ‘who can and will think Black’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Trotter, the first Black Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University was unmoved.
		Today, they are “The Trotter Group,” nearly three dozen Black columnists and commentators whose opinions appear regularly in the nation’s newspapers and broadcast outlets, and they are no traitors to their race.
		William Monroe Trotter was founder of the militant newspaper The Guardian, which was an overnight success; helped organize the Boston Literary and Historical Association; and in 1909 joined with Dr. W.E.B. DuBois and others founding the NAACP.
	www.finalcall.com /artman/publish/printer_1547.shtml (935 words)

	Dorchester Atheneum: William Monroe Trotter, 1872-1934
		William Monroe Trotter was the precursor of the Negro Protest Movement of the twentieth century.
		Trotter became more active in discussions about race, and in November, 1901, the first issue of Trotter's newspaper The Guardian appeared, proclaiming itself an organ to voice intelligently the needs and aspirations of the colored American.
		Trotter afterward quoted the President to the press, an action considered to be a violation of courtesy, but his action did reveal that Wilson was aware of the segregation and defended it.
	www.dorchesteratheneum.org /page.php?id=40 (433 words)

	Profiles In Black Class 10 William Monroe Trotter
		Trotter clearly saw that Black People were oppressed collectively and a collective effort was needed if Black People hoped to destroy their oppressors.
		Trotter repudiated the pretensions of the Black elite and moved ideological disputes within the Black community to a new level.
		Trotter's life was one of sacrifice and selflessness in the service of Black liberation.
	www.asetbooks.com /us/asetu/Courses/ProsInBlack/PIF10.html (696 words)

	PBS - American Experience: Woodrow Wilson \| Teachers
		The Guardian was founded in 1901 and edited by Harvard-educated William Monroe Trotter and George Forbes.
		Trotter purposefully opened his office in the same building that had once housed William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator, and the journal's voice was as uncompromising as Garrison's had been.
		With fellow Harvard graduate Trotter, Du Bois had founded the Niagara Movement in 1905 which was designed to combat Washington's accommodationist stance to racial oppression.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/wilson/tguide/t_lesson_02.html (3343 words)

	W.E.B Dubois
		William Edward Burghardt DuBois, to his admirers, was by spirited devotion and scholarly dedication, an attacker of injustice and a defender of freedom.
		While speaking he was verbally assaulted by William Monroe Trotter (a Harvard college friend of DuBois).
		In 1909 all members of the Niagara Movement save one (Trotter, who despised and distrusted whites and their objectives) merged with some white liberals and thus the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was born.
	www.duboislc.org /man.html (3233 words)

	Roxbury Walk
		Maude Trotter Steward (1874-1955), sister of William Monroe Trotter, worked as assistant editor of his newspaper, The Guardian, and published it herself for twenty years after Trotter’s death.
		She was one of the founders of the St. Mark’s Musical and Literary Union, and worked with the Women’s League and the Boston Equal Rights League.
		Geraldine Pindell Trotter (1872-1918), the wife of William Monroe Trotter, served as associate editor of The Guardian and worked devotedly and tirelessly with him for the cause of racial justice.
	www.bwht.org /roxbury1.html (423 words)

	Division of Student Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		MESA and Trotter Multicultural Center are proud of their history of flexibility and creativity in providing services and programs to meet student needs and campus climate concerns that have and will continue to emerge as our institution becomes increasingly diverse.
		The Trotter Advisory Council made several recommendations that were implemented as part of the improvements made at the multicultural center.
		Trotter Community Festival: The Trotter Community Festival is part of a continuing grand reopening celebration of the Multicultural Center.
	studentmatters.umich.edu /mesa.htm (1252 words)

	Campus Information Centers - Directions to Trotter House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Located at 1443 Washtenaw Avenue, the Trotter House is a super location for student organization meetings and events as well as good place to study during exams.
		The Trotter House will be on your left.
		The Trotter House is approximately a block past the Hill Street and Washtenaw intersection, on your right.
	www.umich.edu /~info/totrotter.html (386 words)

	Chicago Tribune \| Styles may be different, but writing's from heart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Trotter was a Harvard University classmate of W.E.B. DuBois in the 1890s.
		Trotter was blasted in the White and Black press for his combative meeting with the Democrat from Virginia.
		The styles are different, but every member writes from the heart and tries to honor the heroic William Monroe Trotter.
	www.chicagotribune.com /bv-myturn011101,0,1874575.column (786 words)

	William Monroe Trotter Biography / Biography of William Monroe Trotter Biography
		William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934), African American newspaper editor and protest leader, was the first prominent challenger of the accommodationist leadership of Booker T. Washington.
		James Trotter settled in Massachusetts soon after the war, but after his first two children died in infancy the family decided to give birth to their third child in rural Ohio.
		The elder Trotter instilled independence and racial pride in his children.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-william-monroe-trotter/index.html (234 words)

	Over the past decade community technology centers (CTCs) have emerged to play an integral part in providing local ...
		In an effort to gain a better understanding of the CTC VISTA Project’s successes and programmatic and operational challenges the William Monroe Trotter Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Boston was contracted to conduct an assessment of the program.
		Online surveys were posted on the Internet via the William Monroe Trotter Institute website (www.trotter.umb.edu) in July 2002.
		Based on the results compiled by the Trotter Institute, it appears that the CTC VISTA Project PSO is accomplishing many of its stated goals.
	www.cpcs.umb.edu /vista/finaltrottereval.htm (4726 words)

	UMass Boston 2004 News Event
		Lewis comes to us from the University of Kentucky (UK) where she is an associate professor and currently serves as chair of the Department of Theatre in the College of Fine Arts.
		As director of the Trotter Institute, Dr. Lewis will be responsible for seeking to enhance an understanding of the role of race relations in Boston, in Massachusetts, and throughout the world, primarily through applied research.
		She will report directly to the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs and be responsible for the organization, research administration, and leadership of the Institute's programs and activities, including the further development of the scholarly quality of the Trotter Institute's journal, The Trotter Review.
	www.umb.edu /news/2004/general/trotter06.html (539 words)

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		Challenges As mentioned earlier in the “Preface to the Key Findings,” the Trotter Institute has discovered that there is a difference in the responses to survey and interview questions among VISTA Members and Site Supervisors in the Boston metropolitan area when compared to those in other parts of the country.
		The Trotter Institute’s findings suggest that the CTC VISTA Project should focus on building stronger relationships with their existing partners such as the Corporation for National and Community Service, the College of Public and Community Service and CTCNet.
		However, as the Trotter Institute’s assessment discovered, there are many areas in which the CTC VISTA Project can be improved.
	www.cpcs.umb.edu /vista/finaltrottereval.doc (9963 words)

	UMass Boston at Work: Economic Development Resource Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The William Monroe Trotter Institute was founded in 1984 to address the needs and concerns of the Black community and other communities of color in Boston and Massachusetts through research, technical assistance, and public service.
		The Institute sponsors public forums as a means of disseminating research and involving the community in the discussion of public policy and other issues impacting Blacks locally and nationally.
		The Institute publishes the Trotter Review, a journal of articles addressing current issues in Black studies, race, and race relations in the United States and abroad.
	www.umb.edu /research/umbwork/service/trotter.html (241 words)

	William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston April 7 in History
		William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston April 7 in History
		William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston
		I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
	www.brainyhistory.com /events/1934/april_7_1934_92802.html (57 words)

	Campus Information Centers - Directions to William Monroe Trotter House
		The William Monroe Trotter House, part of Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, is the multicultural student center at the University of Michigan.
		The Trotter House will be on your left, approximately a block south.
		Continue on State Street approximately 1.5 miles to the main campus area.
	umich.edu /~sswd/Bobby/services/campus_information_centers/147b.html (408 words)

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