Sarah Moore Grimké

Sarah Moore Grimké was an American abolitionist, widely held to be the mother of the women's suffrage movement. Born and reared in South Carolina to a prominent and wealthy planter family, she moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1820s and became a Quaker, as did her younger sister Angelina. The sisters began to speak on the abolitionist lecture circuit, joining a tradition of women who had been speaking in public on political issues since colonial days, including Susanna Wright, Hannah Griffitts, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Anna Dickinson. They recounted their knowledge of slavery firsthand, urged abolition, and also became activists for women's rights.

26 November 1792

Born on the same birth day (26 November): Aaron Wan-Bissaka • Angeline Quinto • Aubrey Joseph • Chuck Finley • Ferdinand de Saussure • Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan • Line Horntveth • Mary Edwards Walker • Shelley Moore Capito • Wayland Flowers

Born in the same month (November 1792): Victor Cousin