Ray Sprigle [SEP] place of birth
Ray Sprigle
Ray Sprigle (August 14, 1886 in Akron, Ohio – December 22, 1957) was a journalist for the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette". He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for his reporting that Hugo Black, newly appointed to the US Supreme Court, had been a member of the 20th-century Ku Klux Klan. 
His account of traveling in 1948 for 30 days and 4,000 miles in the Deep South while passing for black was first serialized by the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette",
book, he recounted encountering hostility and threats to him and his family in his hometown of Mansfield, Texas. He moved to Mexico for a number of years for safety.
Precedent.
Journalist Ray Sprigle had undertaken a similar project more than a decade earlier. In 1948, Sprigle disguised himself as a black man and travelled in the Deep South with John Wesley Dobbs, a guide from the NAACP. Sprigle wrote a series of articles under the title, "I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days,