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, with each article featured on the front page. He later adapted the series as a book, In the Land of Jim Crow, published in 1949.