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Interpreting the Life and Activism of William Monroe Trotter - Aaron Pride. Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Black Protest Movement: William Monroe Trotter’s Civil Rights Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Boston. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2024. 228 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781666943610.

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Aaron Pride. Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Black Protest Movement: William Monroe Trotter’s Civil Rights Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Boston. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2024. 228 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781666943610.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2025

Adam Lee Cilli*
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh Greensburg, Greensburg, PA, USA

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE)

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1 W. E. B. Du Bois, “William Monroe Trotter,” Crisis 41 (May 1934): 134; Kelly Miller, “The Noblest Roman of Them All,” New York Amsterdam News, Apr. 21, 1934.

2 For example, see “William Monroe Trotter,” Chicago Defender, Jan. 9, 1915; “William Monroe Trotter Addresses Negro Fellowship League—Chicago Branch,” Chicago Defender, Jan. 9, 1915; “New Yorkers Mourn Death of William Monroe Trotter,” Baltimore Afro-American, Apr. 14, 1934; “Bars Part of The Birth of Nation,” Baltimore Afro-American, Apr. 24, 1915; “Local News,” Pittsburgh Courier, June 24, 1911; “Monroe Trotter: Agitator at 60,” Pittsburgh Courier, Mar. 19, 1932.

3 See, for example, “William Monroe Trotter’s Address to the President,” Chicago Defender, Nov. 21, 1914; “Send Open Letter to Gen. Dawes: National Equal Rights League Declares Vice President Has Deserted Them,” Pittsburgh Courier, July 4, 1925.