Archibald Grimké and daughter Angelina Weld Grimké

ID: 3887 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Archives, Howard University, Washington DC

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - The Grimkés, An Activist Family

Archibald Grimké and daughter Angelina Weld Grimké

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - The Grimkés, An Activist Family

Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - The Grimkés, An Activist Family

These words, written by the prominent sociologist and journalist Kelly Miller, described Civil Rights leader Archibald Grimké (1849-1930). Born to an enslaved mother and her white owner in South Carolina, Grimké earned a law degree from Harvard,…