A long overdue biography by Kerri Greenidge of William Monroe Trotter, the Harvard-educated editor and publisher of the Guardian. 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.
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