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Black Like Me

Paperback • 2019 • English

Black Like Me

By John Howard Griffin

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About the book

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. Black Like Me is Griffin's own account of his journey. 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. Selling over five million copies, Black L...Show more

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ISBN

9781788164528

Publisher

Serpent's Tail Limited

Published year

2019

Language

English

Original title

Black Like Me

Format

Paperback

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