there was the matter of the grimm brothers themselves, men who ascended the ranks again. dubois, his talented 10th, only to reveal in private letters, diary and diaries and public speeches, their disdain for. those they referred to as, quote, the -- masses raised by their mother, nancy weston, to see themselves as exceptional to believe that they were, quote, colored westerns and that the greatest blot of the south again flowed to their veins. both frank and rg used the derogatory language that sarah and angelina used when talking about the lowly to describe what the brothers as, quote, the creeping and quote looming in respectability of the majority of the colored people and quote as pastor, the 15th street presbyterian church for instance, frank transformed the institution founded by john f cook as the first african presbyterian church in washington, dc. in the 1840s, he transformed it from a welcoming congregation of, quote, all classes of colored people into a bastion of post bellum color politics, to use the words of one of its most famous parishioners, the senator b