![]() Black people and white people were physically separated from each other, barred from drinking from the same water fountains, using the same bathrooms, eating at the same restaurants, or even using the same seats on the bus. Most people are aware of the immediate impacts of segregation. In Black Like Me, Griffin addresses the dehumanizing conditions which were caused by segregation in the American south. What he found horrified him, and became the subject of his memoir. With black skin and a deep-rooted curiosity, Griffin ventured into the south. In order to truly understand the plight of African Americans in the southern states, Griffin chemically dyed his skin black using pills normally reserved for treating vitiligo. In fact, he was a white journalist with a focus on racial equality- a white man who wanted to experience the truth of black life in a land supposedly “separate but equal”, a sugar-coated line which people knew even then to be a lie. ![]() ![]() Griffin, however, was not biologically black. Black Like Me, a memoir written by John Howard Griffin, tells the true story of Griffin’s time spent in the segregated south in the 1950s as a black man. ![]()
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