The Resource 30 days a black man : the forgotten story that exposed the Jim Crow South, Bill Steigerwald
30 days a black man : the forgotten story that exposed the Jim Crow South, Bill Steigerwald
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- Summary
- 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 Souths 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 reporters series was syndicated coast to coast in white newspapers and carried into the South only by the Pittsburgh Courier, the country'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 Americas 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 Griffins similar experiment became the bestseller Black Like Me, Sprigles intrepid journalism blasted into the American consciousness the grim reality of black lives in the South. Author Bill Steigerwald elevates Sprigles groundbreaking exposé to its rightful place among the seminal events of the early Civil Rights movement
- Language
- eng
- Label
- 30 days a black man : the forgotten story that exposed the Jim Crow South
- Title
- 30 days a black man
- Title remainder
- the forgotten story that exposed the Jim Crow South
- Statement of responsibility
- Bill Steigerwald
- Title variation
- Thirty days a black man
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 Souths 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 reporters series was syndicated coast to coast in white newspapers and carried into the South only by the Pittsburgh Courier, the country'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 Americas 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 Griffins similar experiment became the bestseller Black Like Me, Sprigles intrepid journalism blasted into the American consciousness the grim reality of black lives in the South. Author Bill Steigerwald elevates Sprigles groundbreaking exposé to its rightful place among the seminal events of the early Civil Rights movement
- Cataloging source
- NcU/DLC
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- Steigerwald, Bill
- Dewey number
- 305.800973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E185.61
- LC item number
- .S796 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Sprigle, Ray
- African Americans
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- 30 days a black man : the forgotten story that exposed the Jim Crow South, Bill Steigerwald
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 315 pages
- Immediate source of acquisition
- LSC
- Isbn
- 9781493026180
- Lccn
- 2016056358
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- 1831705
- 855301
- Label
- 30 days a black man : the forgotten story that exposed the Jim Crow South, Bill Steigerwald
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 315 pages
- Immediate source of acquisition
- LSC
- Isbn
- 9781493026180
- Lccn
- 2016056358
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- 1831705
- 855301
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