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Black Like Me

byJohn Howard Griffin

In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color 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. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity-that in this new millennium still has something important to say to every American.

Language

English

Published on

06/05/2003

Pages

208

ISBN

9780451208644

Topics Race relations Identity Civil rights movement Social justice Racial discrimination Empathy Transformation Prejudice Southern culture Humanitarianism

Buying Options

waterstones

Paperback

10.99 £

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