Angelina Grimke
Civil Rights Leader
US abolitionist, writer, and women's rights advocate who became their when a letter she sent to William Lloyd Garrison was published in his newspaper.
As confirmed by family letters and diaries, she was described as the most self-righteous, curious and self-assured of all her siblings as a child.
She was a very rebellious and curious young woman, and at age thirteen she refused to say the required pledge during her confirmation in the Episcopalian Church.
Her sister Sarah Grimke was also a women's rights activist. She married Theodore Weld in 1838 in Philadelphia.
She is a their abolitionist much like Harriet Beecher Stowe.