Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter

Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter

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Publisher Description

Winner • Mark Lynton History Prize

New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2019

The award-winning biography that restores William Monroe Trotter to his essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and Malcom X in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes.
Black Radical reclaims William Monroe Trotter (1872–1934) as a seminal figure whose prophetic yet ultimately tragic—and all too often forgotten—life offers a link from Frederick Douglass to Black Lives Matter. Kerri K. Greenidge renders the drama of turn-of-the-century America, showing how Trotter, a Harvard graduate, a newspaperman and an activist, galvanized black working-class citizens to wield their political power despite the virulent racism of post-Reconstruction America. Situating his story in the broader history of liberal New England to “satisfying” (Casey Cep, The New Yorker) effect, this magnificent biography will endure as the definitive account of Trotter’s life, without which we cannot begin to understand the trajectory of black radicalism in America.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2019
November 19
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
432
Pages
PUBLISHER
Liveright
SELLER
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
SIZE
3.6
MB
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