William Monroe Trotter, born on this day in 1872, was a newspaper editor and civil rights activist based in Boston, Massachusetts who co-founded the Niagara Movement with WEB Du Bois.
Trotter was an early opponent of the accommodationist race policies of Booker T. Washington, and in 1901 founded the Boston Guardian, an independent African-American newspaper he used to express that opposition.
Trotter was a key founding member of the “Niagara Movement” with W.E.B. Du Bois and contributed to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), although he never participated in the group due to a bitter split with Du Bois.
“My vocation has been to wage a crusade against lynching, disenfranchisement, peonage, public segregation, injustice, denial of service in public places for color, in war time and peace.”
- William Monroe Trotter
https://trotter.umich.edu/article/timeline-william-monroe-trotters-life
I hope you nerds have a good month of April 
Remember no crackers
Thinking back to this time I worked as a barista and this taller, bigger Black man would come in every morning and say he wants his coffee “Black and strong” just like he is.
At the time, I thought it was so corny and goofy and it made me laugh, but looking back, I see him as nothing but an absolute legend.
Hope he’s doing well today.