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The William Monroe Trotter House is a historic house at 97 Sawyer Avenue, atop Jones Hill in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.It was the home of African-American journalist and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter (1872–1934).
Trotter was born into a well-to-do family and raised in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. J. M. Trotter a Recorder of Deeds and Virginia Trotter were his parents. [1] He earned his graduate and post-graduate degrees at Harvard University, and was the first man of color to earn a Phi Beta Kappa key there. Seeing an increase in segregation in northern ...
William Monroe Trotter was an organizer of the group. [4] It was established as the Boston Suffrage League before being expanded. [5] The group advocated for schools in the South, against lynching, against segregation on interstate carriers, and for enforcement of the 15th amendment.
James Monroe Trotter (February 7, 1842 – February 26, 1892) was an American teacher, soldier, employee of the United States Post Office Department, a music historian, and Recorder of Deeds in Washington, D.C. Born into slavery in Mississippi, he, his two sisters and their mother Letitia were freed by their master, the child's father, and helped to move to Cincinnati, Ohio.
Geraldine Pindell Trotter (1872–1918) was an American civil rights activist and editor. Pindell Trotter was an integral fixture of Boston's African-American upper class at the turn of the 20th century. Pindell Trotter is most known for her role as the associate editor of the Boston Guardian, which was founded by her husband William Monroe ...
The city’s newest luxury hotel is the Raffles Boston, a 35-story tower overlooking tony Back Bay. Raffles draws inspiration from Boston’s surroundings, like Paul Revere’s copper plating company.
Former NFL Network journalist Jim Trotter sued the NFL in 2023 alleging discrimination. That lawsuit was recently settled. In the end, Trotter won.
The Boston Guardian was an African American newspaper, co-founded by William Monroe Trotter and George W. Forbes in 1901 in Boston and published until the 1950s.. In April 2016, an unrelated publisher launched its own Boston Guardian, a neighborhood weekly newspaper serving the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Downtown, Fenway, South End, and North End/Waterfront districts of Boston, despite criticism ...