Sutton E. Griggs

Harish Chander (Shaw University)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 19 Jun 1872
Died 2 Jan 1933
Activity 1899-1933

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Pamphleteer
Political writer
Revolutionary, Activist

Other

Autobiographer

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Sutton Elbert Griggs was born on June 19 1872 in Chatfield, Texas, to Alan Ralph and Emma Hodge Griggs, the oldest of their children. Alan Ralph Griggs had been freed from slavery just seven years earlier. It is therefore remarkable that he became a highly respected Baptist minister and editor of

The Western Star

in Texas. He also served as the Texas delegate to the 1905 World's Baptist Congress in London, England. In

Paths of Progress

(1925) Sutton Griggs writes about his father's pioneer spirit, demonstrated by his establishment of the first colored high school and colored newspaper in Texas (44}. In the dedication to his novel,

The Hindered Hand

(1905), he pays a tribute to his father as “pre-eminently a man of peace” and his mother, Emma Griggs, as “ever tender and serene of…

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Citation: Chander, Harish. "Sutton E. Griggs". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 January 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1886, accessed 03 December 2024.]