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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 | ()February 27, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Died | June 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, – June 10, ) was an African-American journalist, teacher, playwright, and poet.
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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 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" a Grimke, Angelina Weld (1880-1958) - Harvard Square Library LOVE