The William Trotter Multicultural Center is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, marking an opportunity to reflect on the significant legacy and contribution of the Center and look towards the future. The Trotter Center was originally created as the Black Student Cultural Center to help students overcome educational barriers and it evolved into a space that nurtured student activism at UM. To honor its legacy, the Trotter Center is launching a new 50th year anniversary logo and a month-long social media campaign to inspire new activists on our campus.
Anniversary logo
The logo pays homage to the original “Trotter House” logo created by U-M alumna Elizabeth Youngblood, which symbolized “black people intermingling, cooperating and sharing ideas”. The number 50 in two colors provides a background to bring the original logo into focus. All elements tightly overlap to signify for the U-M community that a future without a past is no present.
Social media celebration of William Monroe Trotter
The Trotter Multicultural Center is also presenting a social media campaign for the 28 days of Black History Month, about the center’s namesake Willam Monroe Trotter. Notably, this is the only building on campus that is named after a Black man. We encourage you to get more familiar with this activist’s remarkable life by visiting the Trotter Multicultural Center’s social media accounts: facebook, instagram, and twitter.
The Trotter Center hopes you continue to celebrate the MLK Symposium theme: “This is America” and visit their online exhibit curated by U-M librarians Charles Ransom and Edras Rodriguez-Torres. The exhibit is called History of the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center At The University of Michigan and can be found here.