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ERRATA VOLUME 5, P. 178, Reverdy Cassius Ransom died in 1959. VOLUME 5, P. 195, James Harvey Anderson was a minister of the A.M.E. Zion Church, not the A.M.E. Church. VOLUME 6, P. £4£, add annotation: William Monroe Trotter ~ ~ S72-~ 934) was BTW's most vehement and uncompromising black critic. A magna cum Jude graduate of Harvard, he spoke for the elite black professional class through the Boston Guardian, a weekly newspaper he founded in Go I. His chief interests were civil rights and criticism of the conservative leadership of BTW. In July 1909 Trotter achieved the confrontation he had long sought with BTW in what became known as the Boston Riot. For his part in this disruption of Washington's speech he served a thirty-day jail sentence. Soon afterward, Trotter founded the New England Suffrage League, and in ~go, he aided W. E. B. Du Bois in founding the Niagara Movement. Distrusting the white founders of the NAACP, he withdrew from the organization at its formative stage. A supporter of Woodrow Wilson in ~ 9 ~ 2 in protest against the part of Roosevelt and Taft in the Brownsville affray, he soon quarreled with Wilson over the issue of federal segregation measures. Trotter's career was punctuated by irreparable breaks with his co-workers, and during his last decade he was increasingly isolated from the mainstream of black affairs. See Fox, Guardian of Boston. xxv