Archibald Grimke

Archibald Henry Grimké (17 August 1849 – 25 February 1930) was an American lawyer, intellectual, journalist, diplomat and community leader in the 19th and early 20th century. He was a graduate of Lincoln University and Harvard Law School, American Consul to the Dominican Republic from 1894–1898, and a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. Grimké was born near Charleston, South Carolina in 1849. He was the eldest of three sons of Nancy Weston, an enslaved woman of European and African descent. She was described in one account as the most beautiful black woman in Charleston. Their father was her (and their) master Henry W. Grimké, of a prominent, large slaveholding family in...