I was a Negro in the South for 30 days," and including Hodding Carter's reply to Mr. Sprigle
by Sprigle, Ray; Hodding Carter
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- Condition
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- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1948. Pamphlet. 53p. staplebound pamphlet, ownership signature on cover, short tear at top of spine, otherwise minor wear. Compiled from Sprigle's series in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette detailing his travels in the South disguised as a Black man, aided by connections with the NAACP, which had hoped that his reportage would aid the battle to end segregation. Hodding Carter's response argues that segregation is unfairly portrayed and that the situation in the South was improving. Sprigle's account was published in expanded form the following year as "In the land of Jim Crow." His work preceded a similar but more famous effort by John Howard Griffin, who dyed his skin black to experience segregation; Griffin published "Black Like Me" in 1961. Both of them were criticized by Alisha Gaines in her 2017 book "Black for a day: white fantasies of race and empathy.
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- Seller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 289200
- Title
- I was a Negro in the South for 30 days," and including Hodding Carter's reply to Mr. Sprigle
- Author
- Sprigle, Ray; Hodding Carter
- Format/Binding
- Pamphlet
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Place of Publication
- Pittsburgh
- Date Published
- 1948
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American; US South, Southern States, American South; 1940S; Civil Rights; Segregation, Jim Crow;
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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