Black Radical, Kerri K. Greenidge
Black Radical, Kerri K. Greenidge
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Black Radical
The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter

Author: Kerri K. Greenidge

Narrator: Bill Andrew Quinn

Unabridged: 15 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/19/2019


Synopsis

William Monroe Trotter (1872 1934), although still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized black working-class citizens to wield their political power despite the violent racism of post-Reconstruction America. For more than thirty years, the Harvard-educated Trotter edited and published the Guardian, a weekly Boston newspaper that was read across the nation. Defining himself against the gradualist politics of Booker T. Washington and the elitism of W. E. B. Du Bois, Trotter advocated for a radical vision of black liberation that prefigured leaders such as Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. Synthesizing years of archival research, historian Kerri Greenidge renders the drama of turn-of-the-century America and reclaims Trotter as a seminal figure, one whose prophetic, yet ultimately tragic, life offers a link between the vision of Frederick Douglass and black radicalism in the modern era.

About Kerri K. Greenidge

Kerri K. Greenidge is a professor at Tuft University's Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. The director of the program in American studies, she also serves as the co-director of the African American Trail Project. She currently resides in Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by KOMET

If ever there was a personage of note who merited a serious biography, William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934) fits the bill. In life, he was a tireless fighter and uncompromising supporter of the African American community (and by extension, people of color throughout the world) at a time in which it wa......more

This is a well researched and impressive biography of activist and newspaperman William Monroe Trotter. Born in Boston he attended Harvard with dreams and aspirations of forging a new world where racial equality was prominent. Trotter’s views made him both influential as well as controversial. He sp......more

Goodreads review by Alicia

Excellent research and writing chronicling the life of William Monroe Trotter. A forgotten figure in the fight for civil rights in America. Books like these are needed so that the true story isn't lost in the efforts to erase history.......more

Goodreads review by JRT

“Black Radical” is a tremendous account of a forgotten hero. William Monroe Trotter was ahead of his time in almost every sense. He was a civil rights pioneer, an early advocate for African diasporic unity, and a strong proponent of organized self-defense, and a Black internationalist known for advo......more

Goodreads review by Lynn

Excellent book about William Monroe Trotter who fought against White Supremacy and segregation in the US at the turn of the 20th century. He especially had confrontations with Woodrow Wilson’s segregationist policies and the popularity of The Birth Of A Nation film which revitalized the Klan and cau......more