Terrell's review of Black Like Me
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
This is the journey of John Howard Griffin, a white man, a renaissance man who dyed himself black so to acquire a firsthand experience of what it was like to be black in the early 1960’s. Griffin was struck by how drastically different society treated him as a black man. Sure it was expected but he was appalled from some of the things he learned. For example, taxes from gasoline went to the upkeep of the beaches but Negroes, who of course bought gasoline, weren’t allowed to swim in the waters. This is a startling adrenaline rush that has to be read to be fully understood. Griffin died in 1980 at the age of sixty from complications of taking the pills that dyed his skin.
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