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AchievementJuly 30, 1903· politics

Monroe Trotter Disrupts Booker T. Washington Speech in Boston

Monroe Trotter and allies disrupted Booker T. Washington's speech at the Columbus Avenue AME Zion Church in Boston, leading to Trotter's arrest and imprisonment. The 'Boston Riot' crystallized the debate between accommodation and protest and made Trotter a civil rights martyr.