Sutton E. Griggs — Chakkalakal Ball Caps Associate Professor of Anthropology

Associate Professor of Anthropology

fosters imagination

This book accompanies the summer 2020 exhibition

From helping black and Puerto Rican Americans achieve critical civil service employment in New York City during the Great Depression to orchestrating white religious Americans' participation in the 1963 March on Washington

Can Norris and his butterflies help ease Elba's sadness and convince her to join them on a trip to the ocean

Sutton E. Griggs — Chakkalakal Ball Caps Associate Professor of AnthropologyEdited by Tess Chakkalakal, Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English, Director of Africana Studies Program, and Kenneth W. Warren 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