William Monroe Trotter - Influence

Influence

W.E.B. Du Bois attests to the influence which Trotter wielded in opposition to Booker T. Washington's conservative social philosophy:

This opposition began to become vocal in 1901 when two men, Monroe Trotter, Harvard 1895, and George Forbes, Amherst 1895, began the publication of the Boston Guardian. The Guardian was bitter, satirical, and personal; but it was earnest, and it published facts. It attracted wide attention among colored people; it circulated among them all over the country; it was quoted and discussed. I did not wholly agree with the Guardian, and indeed only a few Negroes did, but nearly all read it and were influenced by it.” —W.E.B. Du Bois

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