Grimké
Americannoun
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James and Charlotte Forten’s granddaughter Charlotte Louise Bridges Forten Grimké, a poet and educator, was also a writer and activist.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2022
How about the Grimké sisters — Sarah and Angelina, abolitionists who were outspoken South Carolinians and, remarkably, White.
From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2021
“I ask no favor for my sex,” Ginsburg told the nine men on the bench, quoting the nineteenth-century women’s-rights advocate Sarah Grimké.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018
Sarah and Angelina Grimké were two especially distinguished female abolitionists and women’s rights advocates from Charleston, South Carolina.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
At first, the Grimké sisters were invited by the American Anti-Slavery Society to discuss their experiences with slavery with small groups of women in private parlors.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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