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Angelina Weld Grimké
American journalist and playwright
For her great-aunt, the abolitionist and suffragist, see Angelina Grimké Weld.
Angelina Weld Grimké | |
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| Born | (1880-02-27)February 27, 1880 Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Died | June 10, 1958(1958-06-10) (aged 78) New York City, USA |
| Education | Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, later Wellesley College |
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Angelina Weld Grimké (February 27, 1880 – June 10, 1958) was an African-American journalist, teacher, playwright, and poet.
By ancestry, Grimké was three-quarters white — the child of a white mother and a half-white father — and considered a woman of color. She was one of the first African-American women to have a play publicly performed.[1]
Life and career
Angelina Weld Grimké was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1880 to a biracial family. Her father, Archibald Grimké, was a lawyer and of mixed race, son of a white slave owner and a mixed-race enslaved woman of color his father owned; he was of the "negro race" according to the society he grew up in. He was the
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Angelina Weld Grimké: A Biography
Early Life and Family
Writer Angelina Weld Grimké was born in Boston in 1880 to a white mother, Sarah Stanley, and a Black father, Archibald Grimké. Sarah Stanley was a member of a well-known Boston family. Archibald Grimké was born into slavery as the son of a white man and one of the women whom he enslaved. After attaining freedom, Archibald Grimké attended college and law school in the North. He became a prominent lawyer, Democratic Party activist, and leading member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Angelina Weld Grimké was named for her great aunt, the abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Angelina Grimké Weld, cementing her place in the legacy of activism carried by her family.
Archibald Grimké and Sarah Stanley’s marriage was fraught, met with displeasure from her family, and lasted just a few years beyond the birth of their only child. After they separated, the young Grimké moved to the midwest with her mother. She stayed there for four years, at which time custody reverted back to her father
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Angelina Weld Grimké
Angelina Weld Grimké was born in Boston on February 27, 1880. She was the daughter of Archibald Grimké, who had been born a slave in Charleston, South Carolina, and Sarah Stanley Grimké, a white woman and the daughter of an abolitionist. Named after her great-aunt, the abolitionist and suffragist, Angelina Grimké Weld, Grimké grew up in liberal, aristocratic Boston society. She attended the best preparatory schools in Massachusetts, including Cushing Academy and the now defunct Carleton School. She was raised mainly by her father after her mother abandoned her in 1887.
Grimké's first poems appeared in the early 1900s in Colored AmericanMagazine, The Boston Evening Transcript, and The Pilot. Grimké penned her best-known work, the play Rachel, in response to W. E. B. Du Bois’s call for Black theatrical productions. The play, which examined the impact of a lynching on an African American family, was staged in Washington, D.C. in 1916 and published in 1920. It was the first drama penned by an African American and performed by African American actor
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