Black Like Me

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THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA’S SEGREGATED SOUTH

“One of the vital deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down at the racial question.”—Atlanta Journal & Constitution
 
In the Deep South of the 1950’s, a color line used to be etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin made up our minds to cross that line. The use of 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 outdoor and within himself—as he made his way through the segregated Deep South is recorded on this searing work of nonfiction. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity each American should read.
 
With an Epilogue by the creator
and an Afterword by Robert Bonazzi


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