![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unable to tell the speakers’ races from their. ![]() In 1956, Griffin, blind at the time, sat in on a panel discussion in Mansfield, Texas about desegregation. Today, sixty years after Griffin's extraordinary journey across the racial divide, Black Like Me's unrepeatable act of journalistic intrepidity stands as a fascinating document of its times. It was blindness that inspired John Howard Griffin, a white author and journalist from Dallas, Texas, to write about color in the United States. Selling over five million copies, Black Like Me became one of the best-known accounts of race and racism in the 1960s, and helped turn the eyes of white society towards the everyday indignities and injustices of segregation. Originally commissioned by the African-American general-interest magazine Sepia under the title 'Journey into Shame', it was published in book form in 1961, revealing to a white audience the day-to-day experience of racism in segregation-era America. Black Like Me is Griffin's own account of his journey. 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 black man. The classic account of a white reporter's journey across the racial divide in 1950s America, reissued for the 60th anniversary of the events with a new foreword by Bernardine Evaristo. ![]()
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