{"id":63712,"date":"2022-04-21T21:16:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T21:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63712"},"modified":"2022-05-09T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:15:49","slug":"james-monroe-trotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63712","title":{"rendered":"James Monroe Trotter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/james-monroe-trotter-biography-45268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>James Monroe Trotter<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thought Co.<\/a><br \/>\n2020-11-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/femilewis.contently.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Femi Lewis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/james-monroe-trotter-biography-45268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 40%; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/thmb\/Ge9Z32R1LePtt_htWrw7FqFALJU=\/768x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)\/James_Monroe_Trotter-5895bf8f5f9b5874eeea4e88.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption style=\"font-size: x-small; width: 40%; display: block;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Monroe_Trotter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Monroe Trotter<\/a> was the first Black person to be employed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Postal_Service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Postal Service<\/a>. <em>Public Domain<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Monroe_Trotter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Monroe Trotter<\/a> was an educator, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil War<\/a> veteran, musical historian and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Recorder_of_deeds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recorder of Deeds<\/a>. A man of many talents, Trotter was patriotic and believed in ending racism in American society. Described as a \u201cgenteel militant,\u201d Trotter promoted and encouraged other African Americans to work hard regardless of racism&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/james-monroe-trotter-biography-45268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Monroe Trotter was an educator, Civil War veteran, musical historian and Recorder of Deeds. A man of many talents, Trotter was patriotic and believed in ending racism in American society. Described as a \u201cgenteel militant,\u201d Trotter promoted and encouraged other African Americans to work hard regardless of racism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,8],"tags":[33439,33438,33472,33440],"class_list":["post-63712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-femi-lewis","tag-james-monroe-trotter","tag-james-trotter","tag-thought-co"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63761,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63712\/revisions\/63761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}