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  Grimke Sisters (Sarah and Angelina)
With their father deceased and the Grimké sons married or off at school, Angelina was left to look out for her mother and sisters and manage daily operations of the cotton plantation.
Angelina begged her mother to set her servants free ó especially after the death of her father ó but her pleas were unsuccessful.
Angelina's letter was reprinted in all the major reform newspapers of the day and was printed with Garrison's Appeal to the Citizens of Boston and the Quaker abolitionist poet John Greenleaf Whittier's antislavery poem Stanzas for the Time in a widely circulated pamphlet.
www.edwardsly.com /grimkes.htm   (3352 words)

  
 Angelina Weld Grimke Encyclopedia @ Angel.am   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Angelina Weld Grimke (expanding it, The Birth of a Nation – Rhetoricians, Overviews) was a prominent Quick Index and 1958 deaths.
Angelina Grimke attended the American poets, and after graduating, she moved to 1880 births with her father.
Grimke wrote essays, short stories and poems which were published in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Weld_Grimke, Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, Caroling Dusk, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and American journalist stubs.
www.angel.am /encyclopedia/Angelina_Weld_Grimke   (697 words)

  
 angelina grimke, sarah and angelina grimke, angelina weld grimke - Welcome to Famous Black Poet Angelina Grimke ...
Angelina Weld Grimke was born in Boston, the daughter of Archibald Grimke, a prominent journalist who served as Vice-President of the NAACP.
Grimke's mother, Sarah Stanley Grimke, a white woman, left her husband under the influence of her parents who never approved of her interracial marriage, and took her three-year old daughter with her.
Grimke's poems covered many subjects from the social to the romantic, although her preferred theme appeared to be love.
www.afropoets.net /angelinagrimke.html   (356 words)

  
 Biography of THEODORE WELD: Crusader for Freedom--chap. 18
Angelina and Sarah were horrified at the disclosure: more to think that their brother Henry could be guilty of such a sin than because these colored boys were their nephews.
Angelina showed her true nobility of character throughout the visit, but it was a harrowing experience none the less, and she was ill all the following summer.
In 1884 Archibald Grimké was alternate delegate to Henry Cabot Lodge at the Republican national convention, and in 1894 he was appointed consul to the Negro republic of Santo Domingo by President Cleveland, serving in that capacity for four years.
www.gospeltruth.net /Weld/weldbioch18.htm   (3097 words)

  
 Angelina Grimke
At age 5, Grimke was rejected by her mother, and was raised by her father who was a prominent lawyer and diplomat.
Angelina had been born into a distinguished family and as a result was educated, unlike her peers, in some of the most prestigious schools, which enabled her to become such an intellectual.
Angelina Grimke had been writing for much of her life, but only few of her works were ever published in her lifetime.
www.cofc.edu /temples/grimke.html   (753 words)

  
 Angelina Grimké Weld (1805-1879) and Sarah Moore Grimké (1792-1873)
Angelina Grimké's Appeal to the Christian Women of the South is filled with biblical quotations and allusions; it is written as an evangelical appeal, as the appeal of a Christian woman to other Christian women to act to end chattel slavery.
Angelina Grimké urges her readers to break the law if the law is immoral--to be obedient not to fathers, husbands, and human laws, but to a Higher Law that condemns slavery.
Angelina Grimké's Letters: Written directly to Catharine Beecher, these were published weekly in the abolitionist press, then compiled into a pamphlet that became an abolitionist staple and stands as an early expression of the notions that would inform the feminist movement in 1848.
www.georgetown.edu /bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/grimkesa.html   (1135 words)

  
 Angelina Weld Grimke
Angelina Weld Grimké was named for her white great aunt, Angelina Grimké Weld, As a young woman, Weld, along with her sister, Sarah Grimké, left South Carolina in the early nineteenth century to avoid participating directly in the ownership of slaves.
Angelina was born on February 27, 1880, in Boston and lived most of her life with her father to whom she was extremely attached emotionally.
Grimké was educated at Fairmont Grammar School in Hyde Park (1887-1894), Carleton Academy in Northfield, Minnesota (1895), Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, and Girls' Latin School in Boston, and in 1902 she took a degree in physical education at the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics (now Wellesley College).
www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/g_l/grimke/herron.htm   (4062 words)

  
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Grimke was involved in a number of issues of international importance in his role as consul.
Grimke was now clearly associated with the radicals in the movement, although he and Du Bois did not always see eye to eye.
Grimke continued to speak and write and was active in politics, working against Taft's election in 1908 and supporting Roosevelt's Progressives in 1912.
www.usca.edu /aasc/grimke.htm   (2873 words)

  
 Titanic Operas: Elaine Maria Upton
Emily, in her relationship with Susan Gilbert (Emily's sister-in-laws), and Angelina, in her relationship with a colleague in Washington, D.C. where she later went to teach, were both apparently sometimes unfulfilled lovers in a world that had little or no tolerance for lesbian relationships.
Both Dickinson and Grimke might be said to have had, to borrow Gloria Hull's term, "buried lives." So much of their intellects and of their heats' desires must have remained hidden from public and family view.
Grimke, being the younger of the two, would have had the opportunity to read Dickinson's poems, while the possibility did not exist during Dickinson's life (unless she were clairvoyant) for her to read or know Grimke.
www.emilydickinson.org /titanic/upton.html   (577 words)

  
 Rights for Women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Angelina Grimke Weld, abolitionist, and pioneer lecturer and author for woman’s rights, was the sister of Sarah Moore Grimke.
Angelina held abolition meetings for women in New York city and, accompanied by her sister, lectured to “mixed” (men and women) audiences, shocking behavior in its day.
Their lectures created a sensation that landed the sisters at the center of the woman’s rights debate, provoking a rebuke from ministers against their “unwomanly behavior.” In 1838, Angelina married abolitionist Theodore Weld “out of meeting” and both sisters were expelled from the Quaker faith.
www.nmwh.org /RightsforWomen/GrimkeWeld.html   (273 words)

  
 Angelina Grimke
Her father was the son of a wealthy white aristocrat and a slave.
Angelina was born into a family of civil-rights activists that included Angelina Grimke, Sarah Grimke and Theodore Weld.
A close associate of Mary Church Terrell, Grimke was a strong advocate of women's suffrage.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAWgrimkeW.htm   (225 words)

  
 Angelina W. Grimke
Angelina Weld Grimké (not to be confused with her great aunt Angelina Emily Grimké Weld) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 27th in 1880, the only child of Archibald Grimké and Sara Stanley.
Angelina was able to attend one of the finest schools in Massachusetts, the Carleton Academy in Ashburnham.
Grimké's projected volume thus moves from inner death to outer death, from the metaphorical death and repudiation of the love of one who loves too much to the literal death of a publicly mourned figure in a communal occasion of grief.
www.queertheory.com /histories/g/grimke_angelina_weld.htm   (984 words)

  
 Angelina Weld Grimke - The Black Renaissance in Washington, DC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Angelina Weld Grimke was born February 27, 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts, into an unusual and distinguished biracial family.
Her mother’s middle class white family opposed the marriage of Angelina’s parents on racial grounds, and, ultimately, Angelina was abandoned by her mother and was raised solely by her father and some of his relatives.
When considering the sizable body of work Angelina Grimke produced, it is instructive to note that very little of her work was published.
www.dclibrary.org /blkren/bios/grimkeaw.html   (727 words)

  
 19th Century Women Sarah Moore and Angelina Weld Grimke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
During the nineteenth century, the two sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, fought for the abolition of slavery and women's rights.
The Grimke sisters worked with men of the American Anti-slavery Society, whose knowledge was great but "their devotion to the cause of abolition was pure" (Birney 155-156).
Along with all of their speeches, Angelina was "the first American woman to address a state legislature" ("Sarah").
www.angelfire.com /folk/grimke   (589 words)

  
 Sarah Grimke (1792 - 1873) and Angelina Grimke Weld (1805 - 1879)
Without her permission, Garrison printed Angelina's private letter to him: the abolitionist believed that the letter forwarded the movement immensely, Quakers and other friends believed the letter scandalized the sisters.
Angelina, in several of her pamphlets and speeches, developed a strong argument for women's rights to political equality.
So, for their contributions to both abolition and the woman's rights movement, Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke Weld both deserve to be high on anyone's list of Influential Women of the Millennium.
www.pinn.net /~sunshine/whm2001/grimke6.html   (962 words)

  
 Angelina Weld Grimke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Angelina Weld Grimke (February 27, 1880 - June 10, 1958) was a prominent journalist and poet.
Her father, Archibald Grimke, a lawyer, graduated from Harvard Law School and served as Vice-President of the NAACP.
She was related to Reverend John Grimke Drayton of Magnolia Plantation.
angelina-weld-grimke.kiwiki.homeip.net   (278 words)

  
 glbtq >> literature >> Grimké, Angelina Weld
A noted writer from the 1900s through the 1920s, Angelina Weld Grimké was the first African American to have a play, Rachel (1916; published in 1920), staged, and her poetry regularly appeared in journals, newspapers, and anthologies during the era now known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Grimké's father Archibald, a child of Weld's brother and one of his slaves, was a lawyer, an important Democratic Party activist--first in Boston and then in Washington, D. C.--and a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Grimké strove to measure up in her father's eyes through excelling as an English teacher at Dunbar for almost twenty years and through gaining fame as a writer.
www.glbtq.com /literature/grimke_aw.html   (861 words)

  
 Open Collections Program: Women Working: Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke Weld
One of Angelina's principle arguments in this pamphlet was that slavery was destroying the institution of marriage by encouraging white slaveholders to father illegitimate children with fl slave women.
In response, Angelina wrote several letters to Beecher that were later published as Letters to Catherine Beecher, in which she vigorously defended her right to speak out in favor of causes like abolition.
Grimke, Angelina, An Appeal to the Christian women of the South.
ocp.hul.harvard.edu /ww/people_grimke.html   (479 words)

  
 Sarah Grimke (1792 - 1873) and Angelina Grimke Weld (1805 - 1879), Reclaiming Eve: Women's History 2000 presentation by ...
Sarah Grimke was an abolitionist from an early age: she saw a slave being whipped at age 5 and tried to board a steamer to live in a place where there is no slavery.
Angelina wrote her first tract, Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836), to encourage southern women to join the abolitionist movement for the sake of white womenhood as well as fl slaves.
Angelina uses her interpretation of the creation story to bolster her position that women were not created as a gift for or possession of men but rather as unique, intelligent, capable, creatures deserving of the regard, rights, and responsibilities as men.
www.pinn.net /~sunshine/whm2000/grimke4.html   (2702 words)

  
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Angelina and Sarah were sisters born in South Carolina to slaveowners.
Angelina's most famous effort in the joint cause of fls and women is Letters to Catharine Beecher; Sarah's feminist manifesto is Letters on the Equality of the Sexes.
In response, Angelina wrote a series of published letters to Beecher, expounding on her position.
www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~ulrich/RHE309/vicfembios/grimkes.htm   (314 words)

  
 angelina grimke - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
Angelina Grimke Rhetoric, Identity, and the Radical...Voice, 1818-1845 Gregory P. Lampe Angelina Grimke Rhetoric, Identity, and the Radical...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Browne Stephen H. Angelina Grimke: rhetoric, identity, and the radical...
The Emancipation of Angelina Grimke THE EMANCIPATION OF ANGELINA GRIMKE by KATHARINE DU PRE LUMPKIN The University...Katharine Du Pre, 1897 The emancipation of Angelina Grimke.
Angelina Grimke for one, asserted in 1837 that...
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 Weld-Grimké Papers
Theodore Dwight Weld, born in Connecticut, was raised near Utica, N.Y. Here he met Charles Stuart, whose financial support permitted Weld to enter Oneida Institute in 1827 to study for the ministry.
Weld returned to Lane Seminary to study in 1833 and organized a debate on slavery which converted a large number of students to the abolitionist cause.
Because Weld and the Grimké sisters were unusually articulate, introspective individuals, their letters present a remarkable record of their thoughts and concerns.
www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/Arlenes/UZ/WeldGrim.html   (667 words)

  
 Carolivia Herron - Grimke
Carolivia Herron edited the papers of Angelina Weld Grimké and published the Selected Works of Angelina Weld Grimké with Oxford University Press in 1991.
Angelina Weld Grimké was a prolific poet and playwright whose major works were written between 1905 and 1920.
She was a feminist who supported the birth control movement and was probably a closeted lesbian as well.
www.carolivia.org /grimke.html   (102 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Angelina Emily GrimkE (Social Reformers) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Angelina Emily GrimkE[grim´kE] Pronunciation Key, 1805–79, American abolitionist and advocate of women's rights, b.
Charleston, S.C. Converted to the Quaker faith by her elder sister Sarah Moore GrimkE, she became an abolitionist in 1835, wrote An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836) in testimony of her conversion, and with her sister began speaking around New York City.
Ill health after her marriage led her to abandon the lecture platform, but she continued to aid Weld in his abolitionist work and maintained a lasting, lively interest in the cause to which they had contributed so much.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Grimke-An.html   (349 words)

  
 National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
Sarah and Angelina Grimke eloquently fought the injustices of slavery, racism and sexism during the mid-19th century.
In 1838, Angelina became the first woman to address a legislative body when she spoke to the Massachusetts State Legislature on women's rights and abolition.
Through their examples and their words, the Grimke sisters proved that women could affect the course of political events and have a far-reaching influence on society.
www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=69   (443 words)

  
 Angelina Weld Grimké
Angelina Weld Grimké was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Archibald Grimké, a nationally known lawyer and the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Sarah Stanley Grimké from a prominent white family.
Angelina's mother left her with her father at age seven and though there is evidence of correspondence between Angelina and her mother, they never saw each other again.
Grimké lived in DC from 1902 to 1930, from age 22 to age 50.
washingtonart.com /beltway/grimke.html   (1699 words)

  
 A Winter Twilight Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
I read this poem by Angela Weld Grimke’, but I could not quite get the feel of what she was trying to say.
Grimke’ was trying to make things seem more positive then they were at that time.
Grimke’ did not really know what racism was until she got older.
www.shvoong.com /books/1402-winter-twilight   (285 words)

  
 Harlem Renaissance Resources: Angelina W. Grimke
Grimke, Angelina W. "The Black Finger," in The New Negro: An Interpretation, edited by Alain Locke.
Grimke, Angelina W. "A Mona Lisa," "At April," "To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimke," and "For the Candle Light," in Black Sister: Poetry by Black American Women, 1746-1980, edited by erlene Stetson.
"Angelina Weld Grimke," in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940.
www.nku.edu /~diesmanj/guides/awgrimke.html   (383 words)

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