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Angelina Grimké

1805 - 1879

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Angelina Emily Grimké Weld (February 20, 1805 – October 26, 1879) was an American abolitionist, political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. At one point she was the best known, or "most notorious," woman in the country. She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké were considered the only notable examples of white Southern women abolitionists. The sisters lived together as adults, while Angelina was the wife of abolitionist leader Theodore Dwight Weld. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Angelina Grimké is the 632nd most popular social activist (up from 647th in 2024), the 11,177th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,697th in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Angelina Grimké ranks 632 out of 840. Before her are Lepa Mladjenovic, Aaron Swartz, Octavia Hill, James Larkin, Maria Kalesnikava, and Norma McCorvey. After her are Jake Angeli, Sumaira Abdulali, Chen Guangcheng, Curtis Yarvin, Maria Verónica Reina, and Alva Belmont.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Angelina Grimké ranks 78. Before her are Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, Samuel Palmer, Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, Tomás Frías, James Wilson, and Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz. After her is Horatio Greenough. Among people deceased in 1879, Angelina Grimké ranks 67. Before her are Epameinondas Deligeorgis, Jacob Abbott, John Bell Hood, Henry Charles Carey, George Caleb Bingham, and Caleb Cushing. After her are John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, John Adams Dix, Sarah Josepha Hale, Henry Sewell, William Allen, and Zachariah Chandler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Angelina Grimké ranks 11,179 out of 20,380. Before her are David Dixon Porter (1813), Mae Clarke (1910), Norma McCorvey (1947), Jaimie Alexander (1984), George Bruns (1914), and Isabelle Daniels (1937). After her are John Lawrence LeConte (1825), Pauline Starke (1901), Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1922), Little Willie John (1937), Camilla Belle (1986), and Stephen Decatur (1779).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Angelina Grimké ranks 99. Before her are Barbara Bush (1981), Yolanda King (1955), James Meredith (1933), Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861), Aaron Swartz (1986), and Norma McCorvey (1947). After her are Jake Angeli (1988), Curtis Yarvin (1973), Alva Belmont (1853), Lillian Wald (1867), Frank Kameny (1925), and Lucy Burns (1879).

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