30 days a black man : the forgotten story that exposed the Jim Crow South /
Thirty days a black man
Bill Steigerwald.
- Guilford, Connecticut : LP, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (xii, 315 pages).
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 black farmers a.