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1 online resource (xii, 315 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sprigle, Ray, 1886-1957.
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Sprigle, Ray, 1886-1957. |
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African Americans -- Segregation -- History.
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African Americans -- Segregation. |
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History. |
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United States -- Race relations -- History.
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United States. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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Race relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Steigerwald, Bill. 30 days a black man. Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2017] 9781493026180 (DLC) 2016056358 |
| ISBN |
9781493026197 (electronic book) |
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1493026194 (electronic book) |
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1493038826 |
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9781493038824 |
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9781493026180 (hardcover) |
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1493026186 (hardback) |
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