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IN THE LAND OF JIM CROW by Ray Sprigle First edition
by Sprigle , Ray
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Ray Sprigle. In the Land of Jim Crow. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1949. First edition. Original red cloth covers. Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Ray Sprigle, backed by the NAACP, disguised himself 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." The series was collected for the first time in this text, In the Land of Jim Crow. Introduced by an NAACP contact to "black doctors and undertakers, to sharecroppers, and to the families of lynching victims... what Sprigle was seeing made him ashamed to be an American" (Steigerwald,1-12). Sprigle writes bluntly of the "bloodstained tragedy" of Jim Crow, where "fear walks beside the black man" and "fear was the lesson that I learned first and the lesson that I learned best in my four-week lifetime as Negro in the South." Foreword by Margaret Halsey. Serialized in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette the same year under the title, "I was a Negro in the South for 30 Days." First edition, with no statement of edition or printing on the copyright page. Tight binding. Overall Very Good with dust jacket in good condition, chipping along edges and a chip at the top of the front panel. Not in Blockson.
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- IN THE LAND OF JIM CROW by Ray Sprigle First edition
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- Sprigle , Ray
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For over 30 years, we have served a clientele of collectors, private institutions, universities, and public libraries in acquisition and collection development. We are members of ILAB, ABAA, and PADA, and have furnished collections around the world with rare and unique material; from the personal letters of literary greats to first edition Journals of Congress to unique pamphlets from the civil rights era. We strive to find archives and original early printed material that can fill gaps in existing institutional holdings; the kind of material that can bring new perspectives to the traditionally disregarded voices of indigiouneous peoples, women, and African-Americans.
We pride ourselves on the ability to track down the rarest and most interesting material for our client's collections. The partnerships we form with libraries, institutions, and personal collectors begin with a phone call or an email and last for decades. We offer an unconditional guarantee for each item's authenticity and completeness.
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