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Charlotte Forten Grimke by Jihan Latimer
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Type: Original
Medium: Drawing
Genre: Portraiture
Uploaded on: Sunday 1st Oct, 2023
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I am hated and oppressed because God gave me dark skin. How did this cruel, this absurd prejudice even come to exist? When I think of it, a feeling of indignation rises in my soul for utterance.
- Charlotte Forten Grimke
July 17, 1854
Born Philadelphia, Pa
African American Activist, poet and educator
Epes Grammar School
1st African American to teach at Penn School (The Penn Center)
Worked in the US Treasury Department in Washington DC, recruiting teachers.
Member of Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society. Attended Salem Normal School to receiver her certification in teaching.
Taught at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
Reference
National Park Service
https://www.nps.gov/people/charlotte-forten-grimke.htm
Sketch by Jihan Latimer
