30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim

30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South

In 1948 most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for the 10 million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a black man in the Jim Crow South.

Escorted through the Southâ€™s parallel black society by John Wesley Dobbs, a historic black civil rights pioneer from Atlanta, Sprigle met with sharecroppers, local black leaders, and families of lynching victims. He visited ramshackle black schools and slept at the homes of prosperous black farmers and doctors.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporterâ€™s series was syndicated coast to coast in white newspapers and carried into the South only by the Pittsburgh Courier, the countryâ€™s leading black paper. His vivid descriptions and undisguised outrage at "the iniquitous Jim Crow system" shocked the North, enraged the South, and ignited the first national debate in the media about ending Americaâ€™s system of apartheid.

Six years before Brown v. Board of Education, seven years before the murder of Emmett Till, and thirteen years before John Howard Griffinâ€™s similar experiment became the bestseller Black Like Me, Sprigleâ€™s intrepid journalism blasted into the American consciousness the grim reality of black lives in the South.

Author Bill Steigerwald elevates Sprigleâ€™s groundbreaking exposÃ© to its rightful place among the seminal events of the early Civil Rights movement.
Country USA
Manufacturer Lyons Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-04-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Lyons Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-04-01
Format	Kindle eBook

30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South

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