This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.
In the 1950s, in the South, a white man dyed his skin dark and lived as a black man for a period of time. His observations about how his life radically changed were the contents of this book. It was a very telling tale.
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valpenny
3 years ago
I cannot really remember how or where I came by this book, Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. However, I remembered being told by my mother about a white man who pretended to be black and people were rude and unkind to him because they thought he was black. I recall, even as a young child, thinking this was very odd. However, I was being …
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margecalling
3 years ago
It should be read by all Americans for an understanding as to what is still happening to people of color. It’s definitely and eye opener!
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jarrellking
3 years ago
One must (huge emphasis on must) appreciate all that John Howard Griffin went through to expose the truth of how African-Americans lived in the 1950s. This book is the culmination of his travels in the Deep South in 1959. It is extremely personal, written in the form of a diary. Griffin’s accounts of injustices are haunting and eye-opening and …
In the 1950s, in the South, a white man dyed his skin dark and lived as a black man for a period of time. His observations about how his life radically changed were the contents of this book. It was a very telling tale.
I cannot really remember how or where I came by this book, Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. However, I remembered being told by my mother about a white man who pretended to be black and people were rude and unkind to him because they thought he was black. I recall, even as a young child, thinking this was very odd. However, I was being …
It should be read by all Americans for an understanding as to what is still happening to people of color. It’s definitely and eye opener!
One must (huge emphasis on must) appreciate all that John Howard Griffin went through to expose the truth of how African-Americans lived in the 1950s. This book is the culmination of his travels in the Deep South in 1959. It is extremely personal, written in the form of a diary. Griffin’s accounts of injustices are haunting and eye-opening and …