Thursday, 3 March 2022

#ThrowbackThursday. Black Like Me

Griffin, John Howard "Black Like Me" - 1961

This book is more than sixty years old but it's amazing how current it still is. You would have thought people have grown up and gotten over racial prejudices but it looks like it is getting worse again. What a shame.

The author altered his skin colour and disguised hinself as a black guy in the late 50s in the Deep South of the United States. His reports and his experiences are amazing.

Read more on my original post here.

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