![]() Using a mixture of sun lamps, medication and make-up to turn his skin dark, he had set out to experience what was like to live on the other side of the colour line in segregated America.Įnlightened though he believed himself to be, nothing could have prepared him for the shock of no longer being considered a “human individual”.Īt the end of his six-week journey in 1959, his experience of wearying rejection and threatened violence leave him psychologically scarred. When John Howard Griffin’s account of his journey through America’s Deep South was first published in 1961 it caused a sensation, not just for its expose of racism there but for the fact that Griffin was a white writer who had disguised himself as black. ![]()
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