| 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South Contributor(s): Steigerwald, Bill (Author), Williams, Juan (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1493026186 ISBN-13: 9781493026180 Publisher: Lyons Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2017 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | African American - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2016056358 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.40 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1940's - Topical - Black History - Cultural Region - South - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2017 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The dangerous, trailblazing work of a white journalist and black leader who struck a shocking early blow against legal segregation In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for 10 million African Americans living in the Jim Crow South. Then, Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and alongside Atlanta s black civil rights pioneer John Wesley Dobbs lived as a black man in the South for thirty days. His impassioned newspaper series shocked millions and sparked the first nationally aired television-and-radio debate about ending America s shameful system of apartheid. Author Bill Steigerwald returns this long-forgotten part of American history to its rightful place among the seminal events of the Civil Rights movement. For 30 days and 3,000 miles, Sprigle and Dobbs traveled among dirt-poor sharecroppers, principals of ramshackle black schools, and families of lynching victims. The nationally syndicated newspaper series hit the media like an atom bomb, eliciting a fierce response from the Southern media. Six years before Brown v. Board of Education, seven years before the murder of Emmett Till, eight years before Little Rock s Central High School was integrated, and thirteen years before John Howard Griffin s similar experiment became the bestselling Black Like Me, an unlikely pair of heroes brought black lives to the forefront of American consciousness." |
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