Angelina began teaching English at the Armstrong Manual Training School in 1902. The school, consistent with the Jim Crow system at that time, was Black and segregated. By 1916, she was a teacher at the renowned Dunbar High School.
She was three-quarters white—her mother was white and her father was half-white—and thus taken together, Angelina was a “woman of color.” The proverbial “one-drop theory,” may have its poster girl with her.
No reason has been given for her taking her life, though it could be her being connected to a family with a convoluted mixture of slavery and complicated ancestry. Moreover, we can never be completely assured of how these factors may have troubled her and compelled her to send her daughter back to live with her father.
magazine and the Urban League’s Opportunity. She was among a coterie of noted writers in several anthologies and her poetry was included in “Caroling Dusk and Negro Poets and Their Poems.” Depending on the publication, she is often considered a writer of the Harlem Renaissance or shortly before. In 1916, her play “Rachel”
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