{"product_id":"black-like-me-9780916727680","title":"Black Like Me","description":"On October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his own--he made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of discovery was captured in journal entries, arguably the single most important documentation of 20th-century American racism ever written. More than 50 years later, this newly edited edition--which is based on the original manuscript and includes a new design and added afterword--gives fresh life to what is still considered a \"contemporary book.\" The story that earned respect from civil rights leaders and death threats from many others endures today as one of the great human--and humanitarian--documents of the era. In this new century, when terrorism is too often defined in terms of a single ethnic designation or religion, and the first black president of the United States is subject to hateful slurs, this record serves as a reminder that America has been blinded by fear and racial intolerance before. This is the story of a man who opened his eyes and helped an entire nation to do likewise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Howard Griffin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wings Press (TX)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780916727680\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e730 \/ Black Like Me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Howard Griffin was a musicologist who served, and was injured, in the Air Force during World War II. Blind for a decade, Griffin became an acclaimed novelist and essayist and when his sight returned, almost miraculously, he became a remarkable portrait photographer. Following his cross-racial exploration in the South, he was personally vilified, hanged in effigy in his hometown, threatened with death, and severely beaten by the Klu Klux Klan. Respected internationally as a human rights activist, he worked with major Civil Rights leaders throughout the era, taught at the University of Peace, and delivered more than a 1,200 lectures in America and abroad. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Devil Rides Outside\u003c\/i\u003e and posthumous works such as \u003ci\u003ePrison of Culture: Beyond Black Like Me.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Bonazzi\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a widely published writer and the author of \u003ci\u003eLiving the Borrowed Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMaestro of Solitude: Poems and Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Scribbling Cure: Poems and Prose Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the literary executor for the estate of John Howard Griffin. He lives in San Antonio, Texas. \u003cstrong\u003eStuds Terkel was a cultural commentator, columnist, interviewer, and author of many books on American history and culture, including \u003ci\u003eTouch and Go: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"John Howard Griffin \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48867399303325,"sku":"9780916727680","price":29.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_cb59ad84-cd7f-4131-a185-b60ceeab26ff.jpg?v=1788334622","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/black-like-me-9780916727680","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}