![]() ![]() John Howard Griffin's groundbreaking and controversial work helped bring the full effect of racism to the forefront of America's conscience-and it has lessons to be learned over half a century later. Will leave each listener deeply affected. As narrated by Ray Childs, this first-ever recording of This is an eyewitness account of discrimination and segregation that is terrifying and degrading, and its publication caused a furor. What began as scientific research ended up changing his life in every way imaginable. John Howard Griffin (Wikimedia Commons) Night coming tenderly Black like me -Langston Hughes Tomorrow marks the centenary of the writer and activist John Howard Griffin, who was born in. In order to learn firsthand how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another, he dyed his white skin dark, left his family, and traveled to the South to live as a black man. Louis Lomax, Saturday Review If it was a frightening experience. Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment fifty years ago. John Howard Griffin has come closer to this understanding than any white man that I know. ![]()
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