Black Like Me, 50 Years Later

John Howard Griffin had embarked on a journey unlike any other. Many black authors had written about the hardship of living in the Jim Crow South. A few white writers had argued for integration. But Griffin, a novelist of extraordinary empathy rooted in his Catholic faith, had devised a daring experiment. To comprehend the lives of black people, he had darkened his skin to become black.

Source: Smithsonian
Published: Oct 1, 2011
Length: 9 minutes (2,263 words)
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