The Trotter Multicultural Center, as it is known today, began as Trotter House, a Black Student Cultural Center. It is part of a long legacy of activism brought on by African American students united under the Black Action Movement (BAM)-- a legacy that connects other departments and centers including but not limited to; the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS), Multi-ethnic Student Affairs (MESA), the Comprehensive Studies Program (CSP), The Diversity Peer Educators Program and Multicultural Lounges, and the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI).
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Trotter Multicultural Center History Project Team
Along with ongoing efforts to honor and celebrate the history of the Trotter Multicultural Center, the History Project Team is developing a multi-modal narrative of the history of the Trotter Multicultural Center and William Monroe Trotter.
- Elizabeth James, Program Associate, Department for Afroamerican and African Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
- Charles Ransom, Multicultural Studies Librarian, University Library
- Edras Rodriguez-Torres, International Studies Librarian, University Library
- Stephen Ward, Director, Semester in Detroit; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Associate Professor in the Residential College, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Related Contents:
Trotter House Origins: How the battle for a bricks-and-mortar structure was really about moving racial integration from rhetoric to reality
Trotter Multicultural Center on State Street - A Timeline of Events
Interested in learning more about Trotter Multicultural Center's move to State Street? Click here to learn more about the events leading up to the opening of the new building in April 2019.
Timeline of William Monroe Trotter's Life
Over the years, curiosity about the man for whom the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center takes its name, peaked among faculty, staff, and students. Indeed, those with some sense of the Center’s history—those, in fact, who knew that the Trotter Multicultural Center emerged in the aftermath of the black student protest movement of the 1970s—and those with little-to-no knowledge of any of this social movement history, all began to wonder about William Monroe Trotter himself.
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