Black like me / John Howard Griffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980.

Griffin, John Howard.

African Americans--Southern States.

African Americans.

Southern States.

Southern States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Texas--Biography.

Texas.

Black or African American.

Medical Subjects:

Black or African American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Reality memoirs.

Physical Description:

176 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1961.

Summary:

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:

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1962

OCLC:

422627