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John Howard Griffin

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born

June 16, 1920 in Dallas, Texas, The United States

died

September 09, 1980

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Biographies & Memoirs

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John Howard Griffin was a white American journalist who is best known for his account, Black Like Me, in which he details the experience of darkening his skin and traveling as a black man through through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia in 1959. (The racism that he encountered was so disturbing that he cut short the time that he had allotted for this very unique experiment, clearly demonstrating that no one would tolerate being treated as many blacks are, if he or she could possibly avoid it.)

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Average rating: 4.00 · 14,256 ratings · 890 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Black like Me 4.01 avg rating — 14,407 ratings — published 1960 — 48 editions	My rating:
	Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision by John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Follow the Ecstasy: The Hermitage Years of Thomas Merton by John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Time to be Human 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1977	My rating:
	The Hermitage Journals: A Diary Kept While Working on the Biography of Thomas Merton 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Devil Rides Outside 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1952 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Available Light: Exile in Mexico 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Prison of Culture: Beyond Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi (Goodreads Author), Studs Terkel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Street of the Seven Angels by John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Encounters with the Other 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by John Howard Griffin

“Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. It was so new I could not take my eyes from the man's face. I felt like saying: "What in God's name are you doing to yourself?”
― John Howard Griffin, Black like Me

tags: fear , hate , humanity

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“He who is less than just is less than man.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black like Me

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“How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?”
― John Howard Griffin, Black like Me

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