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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.: 100, 104  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. Although raised in Charleston, South Carolina, Angelina and Sarah spent their entire adult lives in the North. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Angelina Grimké is the 629th most popular social activist (up from 645th in 2019), the 11,164th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,701st in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Angelina Grimké ranks 629 out of 840. Before her are Albertina Sisulu, Lepa Mladjenovic, Aaron Swartz, Octavia Hill, James Larkin, and Norma McCorvey. After her are Jake Angeli, Sumaira Abdulali, Chen Guangcheng, Maria Verónica Reina, Alva Belmont, and Lillian Wald.

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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 11,166 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 98. 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), Alva Belmont (1853), Lillian Wald (1867), Frank Kameny (1925), Lucy Burns (1879), and Karen Silkwood (1946).

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