Black Like Me

A journalist named John Howard Griffin decided to disguise himself as a black man in the 1950s. He used medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, and he exchanged his privileged life as a white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is about race and humanity—a work that in this new millennium still has something important to say to every American.