Archibald Grimké
Archibald Henry Grimké (August 17, 1849 – February 25, 1930) was an African-American
lawyer, intellectual, journalist, diplomat and community leader in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He graduated from freedmen's schools,
Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, and
Harvard Law School, and served as American Consul to the
Dominican Republic from 1894 to 1898. He was an activist for the rights of Black Americans, working in Boston and Washington, D.C. He was a national vice-president of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (
NAACP), as well as president of its Washington, D.C. chapter.
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