Black Like Me
John Howard Griffen
published 1960
208 pages
Concerned by the lack of communication between the races and wondering what “adjustments and discriminations” he would face as a Negro in the Deep South, John Howard Griffin, a journalist and self-described “specialist in race issues,” left behind his privileged life as a Southern white man, to step into the body of a stranger. In 1959, Griffin headed to New Orleans, darkened his skin and immersed himself in black society, then traveled to several Deep South states until he could no longer stand the racism, segregation and degrading living conditions.
