The Press: Jim Crow's Other Side

In all the South, not a single newspaper ran the angry series that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Reporter Ray Sprigle wrote after four weeks of touring the "Land of Jim Crow." Admittedly onesided, his stories of segregation, discrimination and degradation (TIME, Aug. 16) made the South look bad. Last week, the South's side was heard from. Many Southern papers which did not print Sprigle found space to print a Northern Negro publisher's account of his own untroubled tour. And many more were likely to print a rebuttal to Sprigle by Hodding Carter, the able Mississippi editor who won a Pulitzer prize for...

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