Griffin, John Howard
Black Like Me John Howard Griffin; Afterword by Robert Bonazzi - 35th anniversary ed. with an epilogue by the author and a new afterword by Robert Bonazzi. - New York, NY Signet [1996] - 192 p. 18 cm.
Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
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.
0451192036
9780451192035
97118795
Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980
African Americans--Southern States
Southern States--Race relations
Texas--Biography.
E185.61 / .G8 1996
975.00496073 Gri 15
Black Like Me John Howard Griffin; Afterword by Robert Bonazzi - 35th anniversary ed. with an epilogue by the author and a new afterword by Robert Bonazzi. - New York, NY Signet [1996] - 192 p. 18 cm.
Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
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.
0451192036
9780451192035
97118795
Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980
African Americans--Southern States
Southern States--Race relations
Texas--Biography.
E185.61 / .G8 1996
975.00496073 Gri 15