William Monroe Trotter, a pioneering African American journalist and civil rights activist, was born on this day in Chillicothe, Ohio. A Harvard graduate and co-founder of The Guardian newspaper, Trotter was a vocal opponent of racial segregation and an early critic of Booker T. Washington’s accommodationist approach. He played a key role in founding the Niagara Movement, a forerunner to the NAACP, and fearlessly challenged racism in both the North and South through activism and the press.
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