TY - BOOK AU - Griggs,Sutton E. TI - Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem. A Novel AV - PS PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Political fiction KW - Radicals -- Fiction KW - Utopian fiction KW - Racism -- Fiction KW - African American men -- Fiction KW - Texas -- Fiction KW - Racially mixed people -- Fiction KW - Black nationalism -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperium_in_Imperio; Release date is 2005-03-24; Produced by Suzanne Shell, S.R. Ellison and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem. A Novel" by Sutton E. Griggs is a historical fiction novel published in 1899. It follows Belton Piedmont, an educated Black man navigating Jim Crow Virginia, and his complex friendship with Bernard Belgrave. Their paths converge in Waco, Texas, where a secret shadow government of Black men operates with revolutionary aims. As tensions mount between integration and militant separatism, Belton faces an impossible choice between his convictions and his community, leading to a dramatic confrontation about loyalty, justice, and the future. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15454 ER -