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Author Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980.

Title Black like me / by John Howard Griffin.

Imprint New York : Signet, 2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  975.00496 G875Bg 2010    ---  Available
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  975.00496 G875Bg 2010 c.2  ---  Available
 Eureka Non-Fiction  301.45 Gri    ---  Available
Edition 50th anniversary ed. / with an epilogue by the author and an afterword by Robert Bonazzi.
Description 200 pages ; 18 cm
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Summary In the Deep South of the 1950s, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. The author, a journalist decided to cross that line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. What happened to him, from the outside and within himself, as he made his way through the segregated Deep South is recorded in this searing work of nonfiction. This eyewitness history about race and humanity, is still a relevant . -- From cover.
Subject Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980.
African Americans -- Southern States.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Texas -- Biography.
Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980.
African Americans -- Southern States.
African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980. (OCoLC)fst00010556
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
Texas. (OCoLC)fst01210336
Genre/Form Autobiography.
Biographies.
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780451234216 (pbk.)
0451234219 (pbk.)
9781606869499
1606869493
0451208641
9780451208644

 
    
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