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Undercover in the Land of Jim Crow: The true story of a white newspaperman from Pittsburgh who posed as black man in 1948 and woke up the country to the iniquities of American apartheid - Couverture souple
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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 nationally famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a black man in the Jim Crow South for a month. With the blessing of the NAACP and its dynamic executive secretary Walter White, Sprigle was escorted through the South’s parallel black society by John Wesley Dobbs, a historic black civil rights pioneer and political leader from Atlanta. With Dobbs' guidance and protection, Sprigle pretended to be a light-skinned NAACP field researcher from Pittsburgh. He 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. Sprigle wrote a powerful, vivid and angry 21-part series for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette describing "the iniquitous Jim Crow system" that he saw and experienced. Reprinted here word for word, it was syndicated coast to coast in white newspapers -- but nowhere in the South. It was carried into the Land of Jim Crow only by the Pittsburgh Courier, the country’s largest black newspaper. Sprigle's undercover journalism woke up the white North to the inequality and injustice of Jim Crow, enraged the white South, and ignited the first debate in the national media about ending America’s system of apartheid. His pioneering journalism came six years before Brown v. Board of Education, seven years before the murder of Emmett Till and thirteen years before John Howard Griffin’s similar experiment became the bestseller 'Black Like Me.' What Sprigle saw made him ashamed to be an American. What he wrote about the oppressive and unequal reality blacks endured each day under Jim Crow is still powerful today.
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Undercover in the Land of Jim Crow: The true story of a white newspaperman from Pittsburgh who posed as black man in 1948 and woke up the country to the iniquities of American apartheid
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Trade Paperback. Etat : New. Support Small Business by buying this book! Family owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. New and unread! Introduction written by our very own Ohio Valley journalist: Bill Steigerwad! About the book: 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 nationally famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a black man in the Jim Crow South for a month. With the blessing of the NAACP and its dynamic executive secretary Walter White, Sprigle was escorted through the Southâs parallel black society by John Wesley Dobbs, a historic black civil rights pioneer and political leader from Atlanta. With Dobbs' guidance and protection, Sprigle pretended to be a light-skinned NAACP field researcher from Pittsburgh. He 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. Sprigle wrote a powerful, vivid and angry 21-part series for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette describing 'the iniquitous Jim Crow system' that he saw and experienced. Reprinted here word for word, it was syndicated coast to coast in white newspapers -- but nowhere in the South. It was carried into the Land of Jim Crow only by the Pittsburgh Courier, the countryâs largest black newspaper. Sprigle's undercover journalism woke up the white North to the inequality and injustice of Jim Crow, enraged the white South, and ignited the first debate in the national media about ending Americaâs system of apartheid. His pioneering journalism came six years before Brown v. Board of Education, seven years before the murder of Emmett Till and thirteen years before John Howard Griffinâs similar experiment became the bestseller 'Black Like Me.' What Sprigle saw made him ashamed to be an American. What he wrote about the oppressive and unequal reality blacks endured each day under Jim Crow is still powerful today. N° de réf. du vendeur 121348
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