Boston Guardian is first published.

Founded by George Forbes and William Monroe Trotter, the four-page weekly is initially published from an office near today’s 1 Center Plaza (then 3 Tremont Row, later 34 Cornhill). Trotter is the first editor. W.E.B. Du Bois subsequently writes, “The Guardian was bitter, satirical, and personal, but it was well edited, it was earnest, and it published facts. . . I did not wholly agree with the Guardian and indeed only a few Negroes did, but nearly all read it and were influenced by it.” The paper moves to today’s 1 Center Plaza in 1908, 21 Cornhill in 1910, then to 977 Tremont Street. After Trotter’s death in 1934, his sister Maude and her husband Dr. Charles Steward continue to publish the newspaper until 1957.