Charlotte Forten Grimké, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charlotte Forten Grimké

American writer and activist

Date of Birth: 17-Aug-1837

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 23-Jul-1914

Profession: writer, teacher, poet, journalist, essayist, diarist, suffragist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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. Her diaries written before the end of the Civil War have been published in numerous editions in the 20th century and are significant as a rare record of the life of a free black woman in the antebellum North.