Black Like Me by Griffin, John Howard

Black Like Me

THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH "One of the deepest, most...
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Author: John Howard Griffin
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Language: English
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Black Like Me by Griffin, John Howard

Black Like Me

$16.77

Black Like Me

$16.77
Author: John Howard Griffin
Format: Mass Market Paperbound
Language: English
THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH

"One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question."--Atlanta Journal & Constitution

In the Deep South of the 1950's, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross that 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.

What happened to John Howard Griffin--from the outside and within himself--as he made his way through the segregated Deep South is recorded in this searing work of nonfiction. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity every American must read.

With an Epilogue by the author
and an Afterword by Robert Bonazzi


Author: John Howard Griffin
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 10/20/2010
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780451234216
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 730 / Black Like Me

About the Author
John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) is known internationally as the author of two novels, Nuni and The Devil Rides Outside, five books and monographs on racism in addition to Black Like Me, a biography of Thomas Merton, three collections of photography, a volume of journals, two historical works on Texas, a musicological study, and The John Howard Reader. Born in Dallas, Texas, and educated in France, he served in the U.S. Air Force in the South Pacific, where an injury he received during a Japanese bombardment eventually resulted in the complete loss of his sight. In the 1950's he converted to Catholicism, married, and raised a family. In 1957, (after ten years of blindness) he miraculously regained his sight.

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