Charlotte Forten Grimké
(1837-1914)
American anti-slavery activist, poet and educator
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Charlotte Louise Bridges Forten Grimké (August 17, 1837 – July 23, 1914) was an African American anti-slavery activist, poet, and educator. She grew up in a prominent abolitionist family in Philadelphia. She taught school for years, including during the Civil War, to freedmen in South Carolina. Later in life she married Francis James Grimké, a Presbyterian minister who led a major church in Washington, DC, for decades. He was a nephew of the abolitionist Grimké sisters and was active in civil rights.
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17 August 1837 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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23 July 1914 (aged 76)
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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