She cant vote. Here she is standing up in protest in front of a white southernborn president. What she told him was amazing. She told him that the only way president wilson you can understand what this thing is like for my people is for to you wear a face that is black or brown. So i thought wow wow. I thought what was going through wilsons mind . He idolized the southern white woman. He scorned people like ida wills barnett. I thought what was going on in wilsons mind when she was thinking . I would like to see his face. I would like to see his face when trotter was speaking to him but especially when barnett was speaking to him. Wilsons own transcriber attributed those remarks to trotter. I went back and found trotters newspaper and a lot of other people and speeches and everything and barnett had said those remarks. I wonder if charles swim did that on purpose. I dont know. Im wondering how trotter and other leaders in this protest against reintroduction of jim crow in the federal government felt about the war both when we were in a neutral both when we were sitting on the fence and later when we entered the war . Was the war something that was considered irrelevant . Or not . I have to think of Martin Luther king coming to the conclougs that the vietnam war was very conclusion that the vietnam war was very relevant for the struggle for civil rights. But in this case was it different . Thats a really good question. And i really havent looked into that indepth. What i have found is that they differed. Some people, some of the protesters eventually believed that we should be in the war. Others adamantly believed we shouldnt be involved in the war and there was pacifists like gillard who was the white chairman of the naacp. The National Association of colored women protested vigorously about entering the war. Trotter, im not sure where he stood. I havent much about what his opinions of the war. But there were other people and africanamericans who did not think we belonged in this war. They fegged we had enough to do here at home. Due boys was initially against going into the war but he eventually agreed because he was involved. Wasnt he involved with trying to promote a black unit and black officers . Commissioned officers in world war i. I think they differed just like everybody else. But one person who really stood up and said thought the worst possible thing we could do, evil thing we could do morally is in entering this war one of the people that really promoted that viewpoint was oswald garrison willard who utterly with Woodrow Wilsons stance on jim crow and dragging america into what he thought was a dangerous war, willard turned against his friend. He thought Woodrow Wilson at that point was the worst president we ever had. I wish i could give you a better answer. Any other questions . I was wondering if you know if the crisis magazine which was the publication of the naacp if there was much coverage in that magazine, especially Editorial Coverage criticizing wilsons position about the federal workers and supporting trotters actions in regard to that . Absolutely. The crisis was right on it. The crisis was not only printing protest and printing letters and Different Things like that, they were printing newspapers from all over the nation, even especially Southern Newspapers that were printing things. Thats Pretty Amazing that Southern Newspapers would be involved during this period of time. But the good thing is their newspapers were usually ignored by the whites in those areas. It was kind of safe, but the fact they did care deeply about the justice and trotter printed these in crisis du bois who was in charge of the crisis printed these. He printed trotters protest in the crisis its packed. Its a great resource for this movement. A great resource for this movement. Could you tell us what happened to trotter . I call trotter a steinbeckian character. He lost everything. He became very i think he suffered from some form of depression. He became very disoriented at the end of his life. He kept fighting. He kept fighting. But he was disoriented. He was ostracized. He didnt have a whole lot of friends. People thought he was too dangerous, too much of a fireball. His methods were way ahead of their times. And his times had trouble accommodating him. He was a visionary. And trotter became more and more disoriented as he got older and at the end of his life he died he was living in an apartment that his sister owned, and it was a flat roofed apartment in boston. Had he a habit of going up to the flat roof and pacing back and forth to think. It got to the point he was pacing back and forth and mumbling to himself. One night he went up to pace back and forth and fell off the roof. And he died. I wish i brought some of the eulogies with me because they are amazing the people wrote at the time just writing about him being one chicago whip was talking about how he was a pathetic character who lost the support of his people and lost his cause and then in another tone it said he stands defiant still ready to battle jim crow. I should have brought it. Please join me in thanking mr. Patler for an excellent presentation. Thank you very much. It was an honor thank youall so much for coming out. Please feel free to help yourself to refreshments and mix and mingle with the author