Fulfilling the Promise of America
In honor of Women's History Month, Tiya Miles revisits the timeless message of 19th-century abolitionist Angelina Grimké: “The ground upon which you stand is holy ground; never—never surrender it."
By Tiya Miles
Angelina Grimké did not mature into the demure Southern lady that her slaveholding parents expected.
Instead, moved by the racial violence she witnessed on her wealthy family’s So…
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