Griffin hypothesized that his disguise would subject him to racism, and he hoped this outcome would accomplish two main goals. To write his book Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin, a white journalist from Texas, embarked on an experiment in which he darkened his skin tone to appear like a Black man, then traveled for six weeks throughout the segregated Deep South. If you could spend several weeks in the body of someone of a different race, would you? In 1959, one man tried to do this. Read on for an overview of John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me book. In the book, he argues that his hypothesis was correct: Black Southerners faced brutal racism. In Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin darkened his skin to appear like a Black man, then traveled for six weeks throughout the segregated Southern U.S.
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