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| | 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). |
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