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Black Like Me

Black Like Me

John Howard Griffin was a journalist and a specialist on
race issues. After publication, he became a leading
advocate in the Civil Rights Movement and did much to
promote awareness of the racial situations and pass
legislature. He was middle aged and living in Mansfield,
Texas at the time of publication in 1960. His desire to
know if Southern whites were racist against the Negro
population of the Deep South, or if they really judged
people based on the individual's personality as they said
they prompted him to cross the color line and write Black
Like Me. Since communication between the white and African
American races did not exist, neither race really knew what
it was like for the other. Due to this, Griffin felt the
only way to know the truth was to become a black man and
travel through the South. His trip was financed by the
internationally distributed Negro magazine Sepia in
exchange for the right to print excerpts from the finished
product.......


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Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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