The Deep South of the late 1950's was another country: a land of lynchings, segregated lunch counters, whites-only restrooms, and a color line etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. White journalist John Howard Griffin, working for the black-owned magazine Sepia, 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 John Howard Griffin--from the outside and within himself--as he made his way through the segregated Deep South is recorded in this searing work of nonfiction. Educated and soft-spoken, John Howard Griffin changed only the color of his skin. It was enough to make him hated...enough to nearly get him killed. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity every American should read.
- ISBN10 0451163176
- ISBN13 9780451163172
- Publish Date 24 July 1996 (first published 1 October 1962)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 October 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Signet Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 188
- Language English