Black Like Me (The Sixties in America)
At a glance:
- Author: John Howard Griffin
- First Published: 1961
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: 1950’s, African Americans, Segregation or integration, Journalism or journalists, Racism, Race, South or Southerners, Autobiography
- Locales: New Orleans, LA, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Texas
The Work
In 1959, Texas journalist John Howard Griffin began studying the conditions in which African Americans were living in the South. As a white southerner, however, he felt he could not appreciate what it meant to be black and wondered what it would take fully to understand the realities of racial discrimination. “How else,” he eventually concluded, “except by becoming a Negro could a white man hope to learn the truth?” Black Like Me is the story of his subsequent experiment in masquerading as an African American to answer the questions his study posed.
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