Maude Trotter Steward

Maude Trotter Steward
Born1874 (1874)
Died1955 (aged 80–81)
OccupationNewspaper editor
RelativesWilliam Monroe Trotter (brother), James Monroe Trotter (father), Theophilus Gould Steward (father-in-law)

Maude Trotter Steward (1874–1955) was the assistant editor of the Boston Guardian, a civil rights newspaper in Boston.[1][2]

Early life

Steward was born to Virginia Isaacs and James Monroe Trotter, a member of the United States Colored Troops 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and later, a civil servant.[3] Steward had two siblings, William Monroe Trotter and Virginia Elizabeth (Bessie) Trotter. The Trotter family lived in the South End of Boston and then in the Hyde Park neighborhood.[4]

Career and activism

Steward attended Wellesley College. She was a member of a number of local civic organizations including the St. Mark's Musical and Literary Union, the Boston Literary and Historical Association, the Women's League, and the Boston Equal Rights League.[5] Steward married Dr. Charles Steward, son of Theophilus Gould Steward, novelist and chaplain of the 25th Regiment, in 1907.[6][7][8] Steward and Monroe Trotter were staunchly against Booker T. Washington and heckled him during his 1903 visit to Boston.[9] She, her husband and her brother were known as the last of the Boston Radicals.[10]

Steward, and her husband, Dr. Charles Steward, continued to edit William Monroe's newspaper, The Boston Guardian, after his death in 1934.[11][12] At the time of Steward's death, she was the oldest active African American woman journalist.[13]

In 2023, she was recognized as one of "Boston’s most admired, beloved, and successful Black Women leaders" by the Black Women Lead project.[14][15][16]

References

  1. ^ "William Monroe Trotter School: Geraldine Pindell Trotter and Maude Trotter Steward". Boston Women's Heritage Trail. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  2. ^ "Maude Trotter Steward". Boston Women's Heritage Trail. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  3. ^ "Virginia Isaacs Trotter". Boston Women's Heritage Trail. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  4. ^ "Getting Word". Getting Word. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  5. ^ "Maude Trotter Steward". Infinite Women. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  6. ^ "Recovering William Monroe Trotter". Against the Current. 2021-01-01. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  7. ^ Cromwell, Adelaide M. (1994). Other Brahmins, Boston Black Upper Class (c). University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 978-1-61075-293-0.
  8. ^ Gatewood, Willard B. (2000-05-01). Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 978-1-55728-593-5.
  9. ^ Finkelman, Paul (2009). Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century Five-volume Set. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-516779-5.
  10. ^ Miller, Melvin B. (2018-07-20). Boston’S Banner Years: 1965–2015: A Saga of Black Success. Archway Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4808-6253-1.
  11. ^ "William Monroe Trotter: A race man – The Bay State Banner". baystatebanner.com. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  12. ^ Networks, J. F. Y. (2021-02-23). "William Monroe Trotter, The Boston Guidian's Guidian". JFYNetWorks. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  13. ^ "Obituary for Maude Trotter Steward (Aged 80)". New Pittsburgh Courier. 1955-11-19. p. 8. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  14. ^ "Black Women Lead". Greater Grove Hall Main Streets. Archived from the original on 2024-12-04. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
  15. ^ Sullivan, Mike (2023-10-04). "Portraits along Blue Hill Avenue honor Boston's Black women leaders". CBS Boston. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
  16. ^ Gaskin, Ed (10 April 2025). Black Women Lead: Boston's Most Admired, Beloved, and Iconic Leaders, 1700 - Present. ISBN 979-8317465209.
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