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Imperium In Imperio: Sutton E. Griggs and the New Negro of the South

Born in Chatfield, Texas on 19 June 1872, the son of an ex-slave and a mother whose name is unrecorded, Sutton Elbert Griggs attended public school in Dallas, before graduating from Bishop College in Marshall, Texas and Richmond Theological Seminary in Virginia. Following his ordination, Griggs assumed a pastorate at the First Baptist Church in Berkeley, Virginia, for two years, during which time he married Emma J. Williams, who was working as a public school teacher. At the age of twenty four, Griggs moved to Tennessee, where he became the corresponding secretary of the National Baptist Convention and pastor of the First Baptist Church of East Nashville. During his thirty-one years in ...

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