Randolph Meade Walker

The conflict between accomodationist and seperatist sentiments among Black Americans at the turn of the century went beyond W.E.B. and Booker T. Schisms developed about the same time among state and national conventions of Black Baptist. Sutton Griggs and his father, an evangelist and church leader in Texas fell mostly on the accomodationist side, despite Sutton's participation in the Niagra movement and race pride writings with seperatist themes. I don't picture a transformation from show more radical to conservative, so much as a continued commitment to the radical notion that Black prosperity could be attained through setting an agenda in which white America benefits alongside than in joining an agenda in which white American largesse has strings attached. Strings which turn to fetters, perhaps chains. A self-published (as were the majority of Grigg's works) PhD dissertation. show less