John Howard Griffin
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Language
English
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In the Deep South of the 1950s, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin 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...
Author
Publisher
Wings Press
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges for this very reason. Regardless of how much progress has been made in eliminating outright racism from American life, Black Like Me endures as a great human and humanitarian document. In our era, when...
Author
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
This collection is a crosscut of John Howard Griffin's work in mid-career. It includes four of his books in condensed form and many short stories, articles, selections from works in rogress, and a remarkable group of photographs (Mr. Griffin is also a professional photographer). The collection reveals a writer of extraordinary range. Here is Black Like Me, the account of his experience disguised as a Negro in the American South; Nuni, the novel in...
