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In 1948 most white people in the North experienced no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for the 10 million African People in the usa moving into the South. But that all of a sudden altered after Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, gone undercover and resided as a dark man in the Jim Crow South. Escorted through the South's parallel dark contemporary society by John Wesley Dobbs, a ancient black civil rights pioneer from Atlanta, Sprigle fulfilled with sharecroppers, local dark leaders, and families of lynching victims. He seen ramshackle black schools and slept at the homes of successful dark farmers and doctors. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter's series was syndicated coast to coast in white papers and carried in to the South only by the Pittsburgh Courier, the country's leading dark paper. His stunning explanations and undisguised outrage at "the iniquitous Jim Crow system" stunned the North, enraged the South, and ignited the first nationwide argument in the press about stopping America's system of apartheid. Six years before Dark brown v. Panel of Education, seven before the murder of Emmett Till, and 13 years before John Howard Griffin's similar experiment became the best vendor Black color Like Me, Sprigle's intrepid journalism blasted in to the American awareness the grim actuality of dark lives in the South.
