Black Like Me
Black Like Me
Black Like Me, a 1964 film based on the book by John Howard Griffin and also based on a true story, tells the story of a white man who takes treatments that darkens the pigment of his skin and travels to the South. The time period of this movie is a time in which racism is at its peak. Blacks and whites are segregated, Jim Crow laws are in effect, and white supremacy is at a high. African Americans are hated and persecuted against often. They are victims of police brutality and unfair treatment, simply because of their skin color.
John Horton, a resident of Texas, temporarily becomes an African American for six months, and throughout these six months he learns, firsthand, how it was to be Black in the late 1950s, early 1960s. Although he is white, Horton feels angry at the many white men he meets on his trek to the South who talk down upon African Americans.
As he hitchhikes through the southern hemisphere, he encounters man people, black, white, male and......
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