Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (The New Southern Studies Ser.)
Tess Chakkalakal, Kenneth W. Warren, John Ernest · 2013
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Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African American in the United States; and help to found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee. Alongside W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Griggs was a key political and literary voice.
Book details
- Year
- 2013
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 328
- ISBN
- 9780820345987
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