Cover of John Howard Griffin: Black Like Me

John Howard Griffin Black Like Me

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Book information

Profile Books Ltd

UK

2019

Main - Classic Edition

Paperback

224

Standard

302471

978-1-78816-452-8

1-78816-452-0

Press & journalism

Annotation

In the autumn of 1959, a white Texan journalist named John Howard Griffin travelled across the Deep South of the United States disguised as a working-class black man. Black Like Me is Griffin's own account of his journey. Published in book form two years later it sold over five million copies, revealed to a white audience the daily experience of racism and became one of the best-known accounts of racial injustice in Jim Crow-era America. Embraced by some and fiercely criticised by others, its legacy sixty years on remains problematic, but Black Like Me nevertheless stands as a fascinating document of its times.

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