Sutton E. Griggs

Sutton Elbert Griggs was an American author, Baptist minister, academic administrator, educator, publisher, and social activist. He is best known for his novel Imperium in Imperio (1899), a utopian work that envisions a separate African-American state within the United States. Griggs was African-American, and known for African American literature, and western fiction and wrote on social justice, racial segregation and integration. He served as president of American Baptist Theological Seminary.