ENGL 281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Sutton E. Griggs, Dying Declaration, Imperium
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Imperium in imperio by lc at unm http://archive. org/stream/imperiuminimperi15454gut/15454-8. txt. Booker t washington and web dubois were interested in him: at the time of writing this, he is a college graduate. White publishing houses did not want to publish novels from black novels, which is why. Invites griggs to participate in the niagara movement (1903, 5, 08: where the naacp comes from, gathering of black writers, politicians, same location where john brown uses to build his movement for harper"s ferry. Important because douglass spends the latter of his life in buffalo, ny: griggs becomes a delegate for the naccp, dubois" dad worked for booker t. washington, thus griggs reported to dubois" father, and his father to washington. Later becomes an arch conservative: dies in 1933. Griggs: we know that sutton griggs is the author, which all blends the lines of author, narrator and character.
