30 days a black man : the forgotten story that exposed the Jim Crow South / Bill Steigerwald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steigerwald, Bill, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Segregation--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Segregation.

Race relations.

Sprigle, Ray, 1886-1957.

Sprigle, Ray.

History.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Local Subjects:

United States--Race relations--History.

Genre:

Nonfiction.

History.

Physical Description:

xII 315 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Thirty days a black man

Place of Publication:

Guilford, Connecticut : LP, [2017]

Summary:

Retells the story of a white journalist from Pittsburgh who lived for thirty days as a black man in the Jim Crow South alongside Atlanta's black civil rights pioneer Wesley Dobbs, an experiment that exposed the shameful system of segregation.

Contents:

Foreword / Juan Williams

Jim Crow, U.S.A.

Ray Sprigle, star reporter

Pittsburgh in white and black

"Mr. NAACP"

Learning to become a negro

Teaming up with Mr. Dobbs

The poor, poor South

Atlanta in black and white

On the road to Americus

An oasis in the desert of injustice

Sneaking through the delta

America's "last outpost of feudalism"

The long reach of "white malice"

Nominating "President Dewey"

Waking up the white North

A civil war over civil rights

Telling Sprigle's story to black America

Sticking up for Old Jim Crow

Truman's November surprise

The great radio debate

A mission forgotten by history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-301) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Steigerwald, Bill. 30 days a black man.

ISBN:

9781493026180

1493026186

1493038826

9781493038824

OCLC:

953223370

Publisher Number:

99981178320