Angelina Weld Grimke

By: Carley Reid

Five biographical facts• Angelina was born in 1880 in Boston. She was one of the writers

during the pre-Harlem renaissance.

• Her parents were Sarah Stanley Grimke, and Archibald Grimke. Her mother Sarah was a writer also. Angelina’s father was African American, and Angelina's grandparents didn’t approve of him.

• Although Angelina was a poet, she was also a play writer during the pre-Harlem renaissance also.

• Angelina attended Harvard University.• After Angelina’s fathers death she moved to Washington D.C. to

write in a new environment.

Three Accomplishments

• When Angelina wrote about slavery in her diary it was later published in the newspaper by William Lloyd Garrison.

• When Angelina and her sister Sarah moved to New York they were the first women to lecture on Anti slavery Society.

• Angelina and Sarah Grimke broke the barriers of the right for women to speak in public.

Angelina’s motivations

• When Angelina and her sister were held as slaves, and saw how slaves were treated on their plantation, this made them the abolitionists that they are known for today.

Someone that had a significant role in Angelina’s life

• Angelina’s father played an important role in her life

• He was very supportive of everything she did, and they could tell each other anything.

Work Cited

• http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/grimke.html• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASgrimke.htm• http://www.historyswomen.com/socialreformer/grimke2.html