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William Monroe Trotter (1872– 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspape

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In the years before the Civil War, Boston's black leaders helped fight slavery from a vibrant African-American community on Beacon Hill.