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- Francis James Grimké (November 4, 1850 – October 11, 1937) was an American Presbyterian minister in Washington, DC. He was regarded for more than half a century as one of the leading African-American clergy of his era and was prominent in working for equal rights.
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Francis James Grimké[1] (November 4, 1850 – October 11, 1937) was an American Presbyterian minister in Washington, DC. He was regarded for more than half a century as one of the leading African-American clergy of his era [2] and was prominent in working for equal rights.
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Francis Grimké was born on November 4, 1850, to a white plantation owner and his mixed-race slave. Formerly a lawyer, Henry Grimké had moved his household to Caneacres Plantation outside of Charleston after his wife died in 1843. His slave, Nancy Weston, served in his household as a nurse to his children. After a few years at Caneacres, she would b...
But liberation didn’t mean idleness; it meant education. The Freedman’s Bureau and the American Missionary Association came South to establish schools for the newly emancipated blacks. Francis entered the Morris Street School in Jasper Court with his brother; there they came under the tutelage of Frances Pillsbury, an early leader in black educatio...
Grimké first made contact with 15th Street Presbyterian Church the summer prior to his senior year when he preached at the church as a summer student supply. It was one of the great historic black Presbyterian churches. Organized in 1841 by John F. Cook to serve African Americans in Northwest Washington D.C., the church would later be served by the...
- Sean Michael Lucas
Feb 15, 2007 · Grimké was a brilliant, fiery orator who became the first African American leader to challenge Booker T. Washington’s policy of accommodation. He argued instead that African Americans needed to fight for the justice they deserved.
Dr. Francis J. Grimké, the son of a slave and a slaveholder, was born in Charleston, South Carolina on October 10th, 1850. Following his father’s death, at age ten, Grimké evaded re-enslavement by joining the Confederate Army as an officer’s valet.
Mar 7, 2018 · Francis Grimké was born in 1850 as a slave on a plantation near Charleston, S.C. He had a white father who died when he was rather young. And as the law had it at the time, he became the property of his white half-brother.
Nov 22, 2013 · For over half a century, Francis Grimke (1850-1937) held the reputation of being one of the leading African American clergy in the U.S. During the infamous Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras, Grimke found a prophetic voice which he used to proclaim the gospel of Christ over and against social ills which plagued the nation.
Jan 15, 2024 · Upon graduation in 1878, Francis Grimké became the pastor of 15th Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC, where he served until his retirement in 1928. Throughout his nearly fifty-year tenure at 15th Street Presbyterian, Grimké was first and foremost a preacher.
