Sutton Elbert Griggs (1872-1933) was an African American author, Baptist minister, and social activist. He is best known for his novel Imperium in Imperio, a utopian work that envisions a separate African American state within the United...
9781572334809 Sutton E. Griggs and the struggle against white supremacy. Coleman, Finnie D. U. of Tennessee Press 2007 166 pages $35.00 Hardcover PS3513 Combining biography, literary biography, and literary and cultural analysis, Colemann (English and...
Not long after settling into the Old Bridge Estates subdivision with her husband and two young children four years ago, Ruth T. Griggs started hearing complaints from her neighbors. The schools are too crowded, they said. Traffic is a nightmare. My home's value...
In the following excerpt, Campbell explores the ways in which Griggs's Imperium in Imperio and Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition reflected the moral climate of their time.
In the following essay, Moses evaluates Griggs's place within the tradition of the nationalist novel adn discusses his use of African-American literary conventions.
