Angelina Weld Grimke

Angelina Weld Grimke was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1880. Angelina has a white mother and black father. Her mother's family was well known in Boston and her father was born into a family of slaves. Grimke was originally a teacher and moved to Washington D.C. After moving her writing career involving poetry, drama and short stories started to become popular. In 1916 she wrote a play titled "Rachel" that was produced by the NAACP. In the 1920's during the Harlem Renaissance is where she got most of her fame from through her poems. Her poems were published in The New Negro, Negro Poets and their Poems, and Caroling Dust. At the end of the 1920's she retired from teaching and took care of her father who was sick. Once her father had fallen ill she stopped writing poetry.