Seriously, NYT 'Race Related Team.' Tell the story.

Despite my many requests, the New York Times won't give a great black man from Atlanta the props he deserves for helping a white Pittsburgh journalist expose the awfulness of Jim Crow in 1948.

My latest attempt to shame the New York Times and its Race Related editors into doing the right thing -- giving Ray Sprigle and John Wesley Dobbs the coverage they deserve in its powerful pages.

Dear Race Related ….

"77 Mays ago a black leader from Atlanta was helping a white journalist expose Jim Crow to the white North ...

The NY Times has never written a word about how the great John Wesley Dobbs helped a Pulitzer Prize-winning Pittsburgh newspaperman travel undercover through the Jim Crow South in May of 1948.

It's long past overdue for the NYT to give Dobbs and Ray Sprigle some props for their daring, pioneering and forgotten drive-by journalism, which shook up the whole country, won praise from national black leaders like Walter White and Eleanor Roosevelt and struck the first blow in the major media (print and radio) against the oppressions and humiliations of Jim Crow, America's entrenched system of apartheid.

My 2017 book '30 Days a Black Man' retells the Dobbs/Sprigle story that your readers have never heard.

Here's all you need to know to realize how much your readers have missed. https://clips.substack.com/.../undercover-in-the-land-of...

I've made this pitch to Race Related many times before -- with no response from you guys. Why you've never covered the Dobbs-Sprigle collaboration mystifies me.

Please make amends.

Thanks

Bill Steigerwald

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The New York Times talks a good game. Here’s the email response I’ve gotten each time I made this pitch.