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President Barack Obama talks Friday with journalists from the Trotter Group, including the Free Press' Rochelle Riley, center. He acknowledges his administration hasn't assuaged Americans' fears fast enough. / CHUCK KENNEDY/White House The man behind the Trotter Group

William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934) was the first African-American Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University. Barred by racism from pursuing a career in international banking, he settled for becoming an uncompromising activist and newspaper publisher who attacked racists and people he called "African-American accommodationists."

Trotter was the founder and editor of the Guardian newspaper and made the front page of the New York Times when he went to the White House and confronted President Woodrow Wilson about lynching and segregation.

Rochelle Riley had one question for the president. Read her column to find out what it was -- and how the president answered.

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Obama: Democrats can win if voters can tune out attacks