Archibald H. Grimke (1849-1930) was the second African-American to graduate from Harvard Law School (1874). While struggling to establish a law practice in Boston, he started the first Black newspaper in New England, the Hub, in 1883. The paper, a voice of protest for Blacks in New England, lasted until 1886. While an alternate delegate to Henry Cabot Lodge at the Republican National Convention in 1884, he became a leader of the Black 'independents' in politics, saying, 'The Republican party is no longer devoted to the colored man.' In 1884 he was appointed by President Cleveland to be the consul of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. A founder of the NAACP, he was a civil rights leader from the era of slavery until his death on the eve of the Great Depression.