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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

Black Radical won the Mark Lynton History Prize and was a New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 selection. 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. Kerri K. 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 America. Situating his story in the broader history of liberal New England, this magnificent biography will endure as the definitive account of Trotter's life, without which we cannot begin to understand the trajectory of black radicalism in America.

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Publisher
Liveright Publishing
Year
2019
ISBN-13
9781631495359
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Civil rightsBlack radicalismAfrican American history

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