by
Caroline Levander, Finnie Coleman, Hanna Wallinger
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
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...