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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
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| Named Person: | John Howard Griffin |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Howard Griffin |
| ISBN: | 0451192036 9780451192035 |
| OCLC Number: | 36566361 |
| Notes: | Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1961. |
| Description: | 192 p. ; 18 cm. |
| Responsibility: | John Howard Griffin. |
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Abstract:
The Deep South of the late 1950's was another country: a land of lynchings, segregated lunch counters, whites-only restrooms, and a color line etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. White journalist John Howard Griffin, working for the black-owned magazine Sepia, 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. Educated and soft-spoken, John Howard Griffin changed only the color of his skin. It was enough to make him hated...enough to nearly get him killed. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity every American should read.
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- African Americans -- Southern States.
- Southern States -- Race relations.
- Griffin, John Howard, -- 1920-1980.
- Texas -- Biography.
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