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 born in Boston, Massachusetts to a biracial family whose members included both slaveowners and abolitionists. She was related to Reverend John Grimke Drayton of Magnolia Plantation. Angelina attended the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics , and after graduating, she moved to Washington, DC with her father. She got a job teaching English at Armstrong Manual Training school in 1902, which she left in 1916, to teach at Dunbar High School. In addition, she now spent her summers as a student of Harvard.
She wrote essays, short stories and poems which were published in The Crisis, Opportunity, The New Negro , Caroling Dusk , and Negro Poets and Their Poems . Some of her more famous poems include, The Eyes of My Regret, At April, and Trees. She was an active writer and activist during the Harlem Renaissance.
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