Black Like Me (50th Anniversary Editi...
John Howard GriffinThis American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.
In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised ...
The setting is the deep South in 1959. What began as a scientific research project ended up fueling the racial upheavals in 1960s America. When John Howard Griffin dyed his white skin to black to find out for himself if people are dis...