Black like me
By: John Howard Griffin.
Edition: 35th anniversary ed. / with an epilogue by the author and a new afterword by Robert Bonazzi.
Publisher: Signet
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780451192035
Subjects: Griffin, John Howard, -- 1920-1980; African Americans -- Southern States; Southern States -- Race relations; Texas -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: The Deep South of the late 1950's was another country: a land of lynchings, segregated lunch counters, whites-only restrooms, and a color line etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. White journalist John Howard Griffin, working for the black-owned magazine Sepia, decided to cross that line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. What happened to John Howard Griffin--from the outside and within himself--as he made his way through the segregated Deep South is recorded in this searing work of nonfiction. Educated and soft-spoken, John Howard Griffin changed only the color of his skin. It was enough to make him hated...enough to nearly get him killed. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity every American should read.
Notes: Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1961.