William Monroe Trotter

Born

April 7, 1872

Died

April 7, 1934 (aged 62)

Known as

publisher, civil rights advocate, broker, editor

William Monroe Trotter, sometimes just Monroe Trotter, was an American newspaper editor and real estate businessman based in Boston, Massachusetts. An activist for African-American civil rights, he was an early opponent of the accommodationist race policies of Booker T. Washington, and in 1901 founded the Boston Guardian, an independent African-American newspaper he used to express that opposition. Active in protest movements for civil rights throughout the 1900s and 1910s, he also revealed some of the differences within the African-American community. He contributed to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

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