April 7, 1872 & April 7, 1934 William Monroe Trotter

Faced Down, William Monroe Trotter

William Monroe Trotter, Never Forget

William Monroe Trotter his life and times
William Monroe Trotter could’ve lived a life divine
William Monroe Trotter was a truly educated man
Attained Phi Beta Kappa, Mr. Trotter was a Harvard man
William Monroe Trotter could’ve chase the bucks
William Monroe Trotter could’ve not given two fucks about blacks down on their luck
William Monroe Trotter lived a life of faced downs
William Monroe Trotter faced down bigots in Niagara and started a movement
William Monroe Trotter faced down the lies and started The Guardian
William Monroe Trotter disagreed with laying down your buckets, faced down the Wizard
William Monroe Trotter faced the Klan and fleshed out the hate behind Birth of a Nation
William Monroe Trotter faced down a racist in the White House named Wilson
William Monroe Trotter faced down Jim Crow
William Monroe Trotter faced down the color line, those who he knew weren’t color blind
William Monroe Trotter faced down almost every black man’s struggles
William Monroe Trotter took the pain of racism clearly
William Monroe Trotter never could face down defeat
William Monroe Trotter never understood why blacks were beat
Maybe that why William Monroe Trotter died face down on a Boston street



The exceptional work of Boston publisher Monroe Trotter continued with his journal The Guardian. William Monroe Trotter so frustrated with the lack of movement on racism took this personally. So personally that he took his own life on his birthday.
So join me this morning to remember one of William Monroe Trotter's most outstanding achievements his work to conceive a movement with a band of black brothers, The Niagara Movement on his date of birth as well as the date he went to eternal rest.