Sprigle, Ray, 1886-1957

found: "I was a Negro in the South for 30 days", 1948:t.p. (Ray Sprigle) verso (born in Ohio in 1886; joined staff of the Pittsburgh Post in 1912 and went on with it when it became the Post-Gazette in 1927; now lives on a farm near Pittsburgh)

found: Wikipedia, 19 Oct. 2015(Ray Sprigle, born 14 August 1886 in Akron, Ohio, died 22 December 1957, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; in May 1948, using the name "James Crawford", he took a thirty-day, four-thousand-mile trip through the Deep South pretending to be black; he was supported in this investigation by the NAACP and accompanied by John Wesley Dobbs; he wrote a series of articles based on the journey, which appeared on the front page of the Post-Gazette under the title "I was a negro in the South for 30 days"; the articles formed the basis of Sprigle's 1949 book "In the land of Jim Crow")

found: Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1999:(Martin Raymond Sprigle; born 14 August 1886 in Akron, Ohio, died 22 December 1957; author of "In the land of Jim Crow")