{"title":"Angelina Weld Grimk\u00e9","role":"Playwright","image":"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/roundabout-theatre-company\/image\/upload\/c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,h_880,q_auto,w_880\/v1\/Headshots\/Refocus-Headshots\/Grimke-Angelina-Weld-Photo.jpg","lede":null,"content":"\r\n
Angelina Weld Grimk\u00e9 (1880-1958) was a poet, playwright, author, and teacher who grew up in Boston, Massachusetts with her father, a prominent lawyer, Democratic Party activist and leader of the NAACP. Upon graduating from the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics in 1902, she taught physical education and English at schools in Washington D.C. and published poetry in journals and anthologies such as Negro Poets and Their Poems<\/em>, The Poetry of the Negro<\/em>, The Crisis<\/em>, The New Negro<\/em>, and Caroling Dusk<\/em>. Her anti-lynching play Rachel <\/em>was first produced by the NAACP in 1916 as a rebuttal against the popularity of the recently released film The Birth of a Nation<\/em>. The play was subsequently published in 1920 and is believed to be the first play by a Black woman to be professionally produced in the United States.<\/p>\r\n","website":"","alt":null}