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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) TROTTER, WILLIAM MONROE. Convention Start for 1929. "Completing of Emancipation," Object of Race Congress at Washington by League * Jan. 1-3. Typed document Signed by Trotter 4to, creases where folded; couple of short closed tears; tiny chip to lower right corner. [Washington?], 1929
an uncommon signature. William Monroe Trotter (1872 -1934), writer, activist was born to James Monroe Trotter and Virginia Isaacs Trotter in Chillicothe, Ohio. His father served honorably with the 55th Regiment of the Massachusetts volunteers. As a political activist, Trotter led protests against segregation in the federal government, and picketed the stage production of Thomas Dixon's Birth of a Nation in Boston, ultimately forcing it to close. In 1912 he helped support Woodrow Wilson for president, who in turn oversaw the segregation, and later expulsion of African-American federal employees! Trotter led a group of African Americans to the White House to protest Wilson's actions. Offended by Trotter's "manner and tone," Wilson banned him from the White House for the remainder of his term in office. Trotter's influence clearly declined during the 1920s, and in the last years of his life he felt ignored and unappreciated. In 1934, on the night of his 62nd birthday, he fell or jumped to his death from the roof of his home.
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