{"id":24691,"date":"2012-08-06T22:26:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T22:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24691"},"modified":"2012-08-06T22:26:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T22:26:13","slug":"lift-up-thy-voice-the-grimke-familys-journey-from-slaveholders-to-civil-rights-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24691","title":{"rendered":"Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family&#8217;s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780142001035,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family&#8217;s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\" target=\"_blank\">Penguin Press<\/a><br \/>\nDecember 2002<br \/>\n432 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN 9780142001035<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Author\/AuthorPage\/0,,1000012776,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Perry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780142001035,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/static\/covers\/all\/5\/3\/9780142001035L.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A story of race consciousness and the fight for equality told through the lives of one extraordinary American family<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the late 1820s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarah_Moore_Grimk%C3%A9\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angelina_Grimk%C3%A9\" target=\"_blank\">Angelina Grimk\u00e9<\/a> traded their elite position as daughters of a prominent white slaveholding family in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charleston,_South_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\">Charleston, South Carolina<\/a>, for a life dedicated to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abolitionism\" target=\"_blank\">abolitionism<\/a> and advocacy of women&#8217;s rights in the North. After the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a>, discovering that their late brother had had children with one of his slaves, the Grimk\u00e9 sisters helped to educate their nephews and gave them the means to start a new life in postbellum America. The nephews, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archibald_Grimk%C3%A9\" target=\"_blank\">Archibald<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_James_Grimk%C3%A9\" target=\"_blank\">Francis<\/a>, went on to become well-known African American activists in the burgeoning civil rights movement and the founding of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People\" target=\"_blank\">NAACP<\/a>. Spanning 150 eventful years, this is an inspiring tale of a remarkable family that transformed itself and America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family&#8217;s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders Penguin Press December 2002 432 pages Paperback ISBN 9780142001035 Mark Perry A story of race consciousness and the fight for equality told through the lives of one extraordinary American family In the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimk\u00e9 traded their elite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,459,8,17,6940,20,25],"tags":[11503,11501,11508,11510,11509,11507,11506,11505,11500,1811,11502,11504],"class_list":["post-24691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-angelina-emily-grimke-weld","tag-angelina-grimke","tag-archibald-grimke","tag-archibald-h-grimke","tag-archibald-henry-grimke","tag-francis-grimke","tag-francis-j-grimke","tag-francis-james-grimke","tag-mark-perry","tag-penguin-group","tag-sarah-grimke","tag-sarah-moore-grimke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}