Jim Crow, literature, and the legacy of Sutton E. Griggs /
Description: | 1 online resource (1 PDF (310 pages).). |
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Language: | English |
Series: | The New Southern studies New southern studies. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11216356 |
Summary: | 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 for black education and political rights and against Jim Crow. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 PDF (310 pages).). |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-291) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780820346304 0820346306 9780820340326 0820340324 9780820345987 0820345989 |