Angelina Weld Grimké

Angelina Weld Grimké was an American journalist, teacher, playwright, and poet who came to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance. "Race" was a major issue in her life; although she was 75% white - a white mother and a half-white father - she was still a "woman of color". She was one of the first American women of color to have a play publicly performed. For her great-aunt, the abolitionist and suffragist, see Angelina Grimké Weld.