# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charlotte-forten-grimke
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:03:46.182Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charlotte-forten-grimke"
name: "Charlotte Forten Grimké"
slug: "charlotte-forten-grimke"
description: "Charlotte Louise Bridges Grimké was an African-American abolitionist, poet, and educator. She grew up in a prominent abolitionist family in Philadelphia. She taught school for years, including to freedmen in South Carolina during the Civil War. Later in life, she married Francis James Grimké, a Presbyterian minister who led a major church in Washington, DC, for decades. He was a nephew of the abolitionist Grimké sisters and was active in civil rights."
tagline: "American writer and activist (1837-1914)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charlotte_Forten_Grimk%C3%A9_full.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1837-08-17"
deathDate: "1914-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.177109333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Charlotte Forten Grimké"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%83%D9%8A"
    title: "شارلوت فورتن غريمكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشارلوت فورتين جريمك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Forten_Grimk%C3%A9"
    title: "Charlotte Forten Grimké"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Forten_Grimk%C3%A9"
    title: "Charlotte Forten Grimké"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Forten_Grimk%C3%A9"
    title: "Charlotte Forten Grimké"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%98_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%9F_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%94"
    title: "שרלוט פורטן גרימקה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Forten_Grimk%C3%A9"
    title: "Charlotte Forten Grimké"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Forten_Grimk%C3%A9"
    title: "Charlotte Forten Grimké"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Forten_Grimk%C3%A9"
    title: "Charlotte Forten Grimké"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5085940"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump