Archibald Henry Grimké (17 August 1849 – 25 February 1930) was an American lawyer, intellectual, journalist, diplomat and community leader in the 19th and early 20th century. A graduate of freedmen's schools, Lincoln University and Harvard Law School, he later was appointed as American Consul to the Dominican Republic from 1894–1898. He was an activist for rights for blacks, working in Boston and Washington, DC. He was a national vice-president o...
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Archibald Henry Grimké (17 August 1849 – 25 February 1930) was an American lawyer, intellectual, journalist, diplomat and community leader in the 19th and early 20th century. A graduate of freedmen's schools, Lincoln University and Harvard Law School, he later was appointed as American Consul to the Dominican Republic from 1894–1898. He was an activist for rights for blacks, working in Boston and Washington, DC. He was a national vice-president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as well as president of its Washington, DC branch.
Grimké was born into slavery near Charleston, South Carolina in 1849. He was the eldest of three sons of Nancy Weston, an enslaved woman of European and African descent, and her master Henry W. Grimké. His brothers were Francis and John. As a widower, Grimké took Weston as his concubine and had a second family with her. He was a member of a prominent, large slaveholding family in Charleston. His father and relatives were...
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