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30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
Bill Steigerwald
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Description for 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 25 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 3JJPG; HBTB; JFSL3; JPVH1; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 South'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 ... Read more
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 South'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Guilford, United States
ISBN
9781493026180
SKU
V9781493026180
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About Bill Steigerwald
Bill Steigerwald's thirty-six-year career as a journalist included stints with the Los Angeles Times, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. At the Trib he was an associate editor, feature writer, book page editor/writer, editorial writer, weekly op-ed columnist and weekly interviewer of important newsmakers. His work has appeared in dozens of major American papers and in magazines as disparate ... Read more
Reviews for 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
As a story from the Jim Crow past, Bill Steigerwald's recounting of Sprigle's mission . . . reminds us of what an honest conversation about race can accomplish as we continue on the path toward a more equitable future.
Juan Williams, political analyst and author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 This is a ... Read more
Juan Williams, political analyst and author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 This is a ... Read more