American playwright Angelina Weld Grimké was BOTD in 1880. Born in Boston to biracial parents, her ancestors included white slave owners and freed slaves. Her father was the second African-American to graduate from Harvard Law School, and her mother and aunt were noted abolitionists and suffragettes. Grimké’s parents separated when she was a child, and she was raised by her father in Washington DC, where he was US consul to the Dominican Republic. She studied at the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics (now Wellesley College) and became a teacher, taking classes at Harvard University. She lived with her father until his death in 1930, then moved to New York City, where she lived for the rest of her life. She began publishing essays, short stories and poems in the abolitionist newspaper The Crisis, which were collected in anthologies of the Harlem Renaissance. Her 1916 play Rachel, a protest piece about lynching and racial violence, was performed in Washington D. C. by an all-Black cast, making her one of the first African-Americans to have a play professionally produced. Much of her later fiction and non-fiction focused on themes of racism, including her short story Goldie, based on the 1918 lynching of Mary Turner in Georgia. Grimké never married or had children and appears to have lived as a recluse. At 16, she wrote a love letter to her friend Mary Burrill, imploring Burrill to become her wife. Her frustration over her lesbianism was explored in her diaries, letters and unpublished fiction. She died in 1958, aged 78. Largely forgotten at her death, her work was rediscovered during the Black Civil Rights movement, and championed by writers including Audre Lorde.