30 Days a Black Man [electronic resource] : The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
Steigerwald, Bill2017
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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 and doctors. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter's 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 America's system of apartheid.Six years before Brown V. Board of Education, seven before the murder of Emmett Till, and thirteen before John Howard Griffin's similar experiment became the bestseller Black Like Me, Sprigle's intrepid journalism blasted into the American consciousness the grim reality of black lives in the South.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, 2017
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1 online resource (1 audio file)
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9781538431979
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English
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1060610
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