Black_Like_Me

Black Like Me Black Like Me SETTING This book is an autobiographical diary of John Howard Griffin, a white journalist from Texas, who undergoes medical treatment to temporarily color his skin black, so that he can understand what it is like to be a Negro in a land of racial segregation. It is a journal of the authors personal experiences living as a Negro. For six weeks the author from Texas, hitchhikes or walks, takes a bus or trudges the streets of four other Southern states of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia, all of which treat the Negroes as tenth class citizens. CHARACTERS John Howard Griffin The author of the book. He is a sensitive white journalist. The whole book is a shocking account of his personal experiences, when he transforms himself temporarily into a Negro for six weeks. During this period, he suffers raw hate and violence, crudity and inhumanity, from the white racists. He sets out on a personal quest to discover what it is really like to be a Negro. He experiences how, many freedoms and rights that he enjoyed as a privileged white are now forbidden to him. This is a grim and bitter eye-opener for him. In addition, he encounters many black, like, me, negro, author, white, book, treatment, negroes, 1959, very, racists, griffin, experiences, about, skin, howard, diary, weeks, time, texas, tells, six, racial, plan, personally, personal, out, one, now, life, journalist, john, friend, first, doctor, day, black, authors, account, treat, transforms, temporarily, tell, suffered, sensitive, racism, plans, orleans, new, nameless