Grimké, Archibald Henry, 1849-1930

• 1849 August 17: Born on plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, son of Henry Grimke and Nancy Weston.
• 1866 - 70 : Attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
• 1870 - 72 : Tutored at Lincoln University.
• 1874: Graduated from Harvard Law School.
• 1884: Served as Henry Cabot Lodge's alternative delegate at large to the Republican National Convention.
• 1879: Married Sarah E. Stanley.
• 1883 - 85 : Edited and published the Hub in Boston, Mass.
• 1884: Appointed trustee to the Westboro Insane Asylum.
• 1891: Published William Lloyd Garrison, The Abolitionist.
• 1892: Published The Life of Charles Sooner, the Scholar in Politics.
• 1894 - 98 : Appointed and served as consul to Santo Domingo.
• 1903 - 16 : Served as president of the American Negro Academy.
• 1909 - 1930 : Served as president of NAACP (District Branch) as well as director and vice-president of the national body.
• Served as president of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association.
• 1919: Received the Spingarn Medal for a lifetime of service to his race.
• 1930 February 25: Died.

From the guide to the Archibald H. Grimke Papers, 1894-1930, (Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University)