Black like Me

Recently, I remembered one of my favorite books I read for a report last year- Black like Me by John Howard Griffin. It was a very interesting true life senario, where a white man temporarily dyed his skin dark brown to pass as a black man in the South. John Howard Griffin came up with this experiment in the 1960's and carried out his plan to live a black life for six weeks while he reported back for "Sepia Magazine". So in 1959, Griffin moved away from his family in the typical white subburbs, to deep into the black side of Louisiana. Through his journey, he moved from Louisiana to Mississippi, Alabama, and then to Georgia. At that time, the South was the worst place in the country for segragation and race unequality, but Griffin relied on the love and warm hospitality from the african american people he met through his month and a half as a black man. Some of the stories he recalls are very sad, being that he was not always treated fairly from white people. I would absolutly recommend this book to other people, because it gives a very interesting perspective, being that Griffin had seen both sides of the story. On the inside page was the poem Griffin had used as inspiration for the book's title:

Rest at pale evening...
A tall slim tree...
Night coming tenderly
Black like me.