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Archibald Grimke receives the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s prestigious Spingarn award for his service to Santo Domingo.
1919 (Feb 1)
Founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Archibald Grimke, received the Spingarn Award for his service as the U.S. consul to Santo Domingo. Grimke was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1849. He studied at Lincoln University, and in 1874, he graduated from the Harvard University Law School. Five years later Grimke married Sarah Stanley, and the couple had one child in 1880. Beginning in 1883, Grimke edited "The Hub", a Boston weekly. Grimke was president of the American Negro Academy before becoming the consul to Santo Domingo in 1894. Grimke died February 25, 1930.
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.