(13), 229p. Recent quarterbinding -- marbled boards nicely backed in leather. 20cm. Library stamp from a segreated public elementary school for African Americans in Tennessee on two text leaves. Corners dog-eared on a few pages. No Jacket. Griggs, a Baptist minister in Memphis, wrote (and published) several of these racial self-help books, but is most remembered for his five racially-themed novels.
Sutton Elbert Griggs was an African-American author, Baptist minister, and social activist. He is best known for Imperium in Imperio, a utopian work that envisions a separate African-American state within the United States.