Born in Boston in 1880, Angelina Weld Grimke, inspired by her great aunt and namesake, a famous White abolitionist, aimed to dismantle all forms of racial prejudice and discrimination. She became a groundbreaking author of the Harlem Renaissance, and her work was later anthologized in major publications. This biography explores the life and works of this controversial writer, outspoken lesbian, civil rights activist, womanist, and educator. Weld Grimke influenced several highly acclaimed artists, including Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, Lucille Clifton, poet-critic Gloria Hull, critic Barbara Smith, and many others, and angered and inspired numerous Americans because she wrote poems, short stories, and political essays that were filled with harsh facts about racial violence and that vividly highlighted man's inhumanity to man. Angelina Weld Grimke was a staunch civil rights activist who refused to be silenced until her death in 1958. Lambert's biography pays tribute to a woman whose passion for truth and goodness became her legacy.
- ISBN10 0275984184
- ISBN13 9780275984182
- Publish Date 10 December 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher ABC-CLIO
- Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 210
- Language English