Sprigle Ray (15 results)
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Seller: BookMarx Bookstore, Steubenville, OH, U.S.A.BookMarx Bookstore
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Trade Paperback. Condition: 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 dail…y 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.
Published by Simon and Schuster, 1949
- Hardcover
Seller: Booksavers of Virginia, Harrisonburg, VA, U.S.A.Booksavers of Virginia
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hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library with typical library markings/labels, otherwise unmarked. Cover scuffed, bumped corners. No dj. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.
Language: English
Published by Simon and Schuster, 1949
- Hardcover
Seller: SatelliteBooks, Burlington, VT, U.S.A.SatelliteBooks
Contact seller5-star sellerhardcover. Condition: Hardcover. First Edition. 1st printing, Very Good condition. Hardcover, no DJ, Free of any markings and no writings inside. Mild age tanning .Modest show of wear. Gently used. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.
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Published by Simon & Schuster, USA, 1949
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA, Tomball, TX, U.S.A.Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition; A Near Fine book in a Good plus or better dust jacket. A handsome copy of this important work, uncommon in the original jacket and in collectible condition. The author, a Pulitzer Prize winner, traveled through the deep south posing as a Ne…gro, this account serving as a report of the continued rampant discrimination and oppression still existing at that time. This copy is in near fine condition with light rubbing to the spine ends, gentle wear to the boards, and faint soiling to the exterior text block. Housed in a clean and bright original dust jacket that shows moderate sun fading to the spine, chipping to the edges and corners with one larger chip to the spine foot, a few closed tears to the jacket edges, and four pieces of tape repair to the verso (invisible externally). Overall, a presentable and collectible copy. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.
Published by Simon and Schuster
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.ThriftBooksVintage
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Good clean unmarked copy. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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- First Edition
Seller: Archives Books, Inc., Edmond, OK, U.S.A.Archives Books, Inc.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First printing, 1949. Simon & Schuster does not state first edition till 1952. Jacket price ($2.50). Jacket in Poor condition with tears. No markings on text. Tight binding. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Friday.
More imagesPublished by simon and schuster, new york, 1949
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- First Edition
Seller: leaves, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.leaves
Contact seller5-star sellerfirst edition, 1949. a pulitzer-prize winning journalist's exposé on the evils of racism and segregation in the american south. new york: simon and schuster. 5.5 x 8 inches. 215 pages. hardcover. bound in reddish cloth-covered boards. book condition: fading to spine. some soiling to boards. some shelf-wear. some toning and stain…ing to block. very good---. absent scarce dust jacket.
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1949
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.The Chatham Bookseller
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 215pp. Red cloth boards, titles on spine and front board in black. Shelfwear to corners and spine ends, but binding remains tight and spine remains straight. Pages slightly age toned, but otherwise clean and unmarked. Ray Sprigle was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who disguise…d himself as an African-American man in order to chronicle life under Jim Crow. He did so in a series of articles entitled, "I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days," a project supported by the NAACP and nationally syndicated. The results appear in full in this book. A remarkable document, and the inspiration for Bill Stiegerwald's 2017 book, 30 Days a Black Man. Book.
More imagesPublished by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1949
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Type Punch Matrix
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First printing. First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning white journalist's accounts of his travels in the summer of 1948 through the Deep South, representing himself as a Black man and reporting on the discrimination and oppression he experienced. Sprigle's project was made possible by the guidance and companionship of…civil rights activist John Wesley Dobbs - referred to only as a "friend" in the text and not publicly identified until 1973. Dobbs was introduced to the author by Walter White, then director of the NAACP. While undercover for the NAACP, White had traveled extensively in the region while passing as a white man - a considerably riskier and braver feat, as Sprigle notes. Sprigle's book predated John Howard Griffin's similar BLACK LIKE ME by more than a decade, and unlike Griffin, Sprigle did not rely on modification of his appearance beyond a suntan. He discusses in some detail the degree to which his successful impersonation relied on the arcane and elaborately coded American system of racial classification. Sprigle's expose was primarily written for a white audience accustomed to believing white writers. Within this context, his pioneering reports (which originally appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) came as a revelation and shock to many Northerners, with a far-reaching and lingering impact. Uncommon in its first edition, especially in a jacket and in collectible condition. 8" x 5.25" Original red cloth. Black topstain. In original unclipped dust jacket ($2.50) designed by Leo Manso. Foreword by Margaret Halsey. 215 pages. Jacket spine faded, chipping to edges, with some rubbing and toning. Book lightly shelfworn at extremities, especially spine tips. Overall, clean and sound. Very good in a very good minus jacket.
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1949
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.By Books Alone
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Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Spine ends very slightly worn.
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1949
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Offsetting on front endpapers from a clipping, else about fine in slightly soiled near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear on the front panel. Sprigle, was a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist backed by the NAACP, passing as an African-American in order to expose… the evils of segregation and racism in a 21-part nationally syndicated series of stories titled *I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days.* This compilation is the first collected text of the articles.
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Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
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Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (African Americans, Segregation, Legal Status) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Seller: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. Sprigle, Ray. In the Land of Jim Crow, 1949, collects Sprigle's nationally circulated undercover reporting on segregation, racial terror, and daily Black life in the American South before the modern Civil Rights Movement. Backed by NAACP contacts and guided through Black communities, Sprigle traveled while dis…guised as an African American man, turning his observations into the twenty-one-part series "I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days." The book provides evidence for the study of Jim Crow, white northern journalism, Black institutional networks, and pre-Brown v. Board civil rights publicity. Sprigle, Ray. In the Land of Jim Crow. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1949. First edition. Foreword by Margaret Halsey. Original red cloth covers. Dust jacket present. Sprigle writes of the "bloodstained tragedy" of Jim Crow and states that "fear walks beside the black man," identifying fear as the lesson he learned first during his four-week passage through the segregated South. The reporting grew from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette series and was later expanded into book form. Published six years before Brown v. Board of Education and more than a decade before John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me, the book occupies an important place in the history of race reporting and public exposure of segregation. Tight binding; dust jacket with chipping along edges and a chip at top of front panel; book very good, jacket good. A significant postwar civil rights journalism title documenting Jim Crow through an NAACP-assisted undercover investigation.
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Seller: Bluestocking Books, Bangor, PA, U.S.A.Bluestocking Books
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NY. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Cloth; Simon & Schuster; 1949; First Edition. Sprigle, Ray. In the Land of Jim Crow. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1949, First Edition, 215 pages. Dust wrapper has heavy wear, front flap detached but present. Red cloth boards with titles to the front board and spine, blue/green top stain. slight fading… to spine, edges are lightly rubbed. Foreword by Margaret Halsey.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . Very Good in Good dust jacket; Cloth; Simon & Schuster; 1949; First Edition.
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- First Edition
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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Condition: Near Fine. About Very Good. First Edition. First edition. vii, 215, [1, note about author] pp. Original scarlet cloth with black lettering, black topstain. Near Fine with light shelf wear, tiny tear in inner hinge at front, in About Very Good dust jacket with chipping along edges, closed tear in top of back panel. Rar…e in jacket. Over a decade before John Howard Griffin dyed his skin to chronicle Southern racism in Black Like Me, Pulitzer-winning journalist Ray Sprigle disguised himself as an African-American and exposed the evils of segregation and racism in a 21-part nationally-syndicated series of stories "I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days," collected for the first time in this book. He did so with the backing of the NAACP. As a 2011 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette piece by Bill Steigerwald recalled Sprigle: "Though he was a lifelong friend of the underdog, Sprigle was no softhearted liberal. He was no moralist, no precocious civil rights crusader, no longtime champion of the cause of the Negro, North or South. He was a staunch conservative Republican who hated FDR and the New Deal. All he had wanted his Southern investigation to do, he said later, was to see 'that justice was done to a group that is grossly oppressed.'" Sprigle's story was also chronicled in the 2017 book by Steigerwald, 30 Days a Black Man.
