num_pages: 188
description: He trudged southern streets searching for a place where he could eat or rest, looking vainly for a job other than menial labor, feeling the "hate stare." He was John Griffin, a white man who darkened the color of his skin and crossed the line into a country of hate, fear, and hopelessness--the country of the American Black man.
language: English
title: Black Like Me
titlecomplete: Black Like Me
genres: Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Classics, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Sociology, Race, History, African American
ratings_count: 67516
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -252432000000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
publisher: Buccaneer Books