| LC control no. | n 50025337 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Forten, Charlotte L. |
| Variant(s) | Forten Grimké, Charlotte L. Grimké, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Charlotte L. Forten |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1837-08-17 |
| Death date | 1914-07-23 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | Salem Female Anti-slavery Society (Salem, Mass.) United States. Department of the Treasury Philadelphia's Port Royal Commission |
| Profession or occupation | African American women authors Essayists Teachers Abolitionists |
| Found in | Erckmann, E. Madame Thérèse, 1869 Her The journals of Charlotte L. Forten Grimké, 1988. Info. from 678 field, converted 2012-10-10 (1837-1914) NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for Francis James Grimké papers, 1834-1937 (Charlotte (Forten) Grimké, writer and poet; wife of Francis James Grimké; coll. contains her papers) English Wikipedia website, viewed Oct. 11, 2012 (Charlotte Louise[citation needed] Bridges Forten Grimké (August 17, 1837--July 23, 1914) was an African-American anti-slavery activist, poet, and educator; born in Philadelphia, Pa.) Black Women in America, Second Edition, accessed January 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Grimk{acute}e, Charlotte L. Forten; diarist, educator, essayist; born 17 August 1837 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; attended the State Normal School in Salem, Massachusetts; was a member of the Salem Female Anti-slavery Society; published in antislavery periodicals, including the Liberator,National Anti-Slavery Standard, and Bishop Daniel Payne's Anglo African magazine; assigned with Philadelphia's Port Royal Commission as the first African American teacher hired for the Sea Island mission (1862); recorded Sea Island experiences in essays titled Life on the Sea Islands (1864); secretary of the Freedmen's Relief Association in Boston (1860's); assisted African American educator Richard T. Greener, principal of Sumner High School in Washington, DC (1871-1872); clerk at the U.S. Treasury Department (1873); died 23 July 1914 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States) |
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