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    Quick Guide: Black Like Me
    Quick Guide: Black Like Me
    Quick Guide: Black Like Me
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    Quick Guide: Black Like Me

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    The protagonist and the narrator of the book, John Howard Griffin, is a middle aged white man. He lives in Mansfield, Texas in 1959.

    Griffin wants to understand what difficulties the blacks face in the United States. He is totally committed to the cause of racial justice. He is quite frustrated because he can’t understand as a white man what the blacks experience.

    Eventually, he decides to take a very radical step. He decides to change the color of his skin, and he takes the help of a doctor and undergoes medical treatment. The color of his skin is changed and he temporarily becomes a black man.

    Quick Guide: Black Like Me
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    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Characters
    Chapter Three: Brief Account
    Chapter Four: Complete Summary
    Chapter Five: Critical Commentary

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateAug 16, 2013
    ISBN9781301560301
    Quick Guide: Black Like Me
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      Chapter One: Introduction

      Black Like Me by journalist Howard Griffin was published in the year 1961. It is a notification book.

      Howard Griffin was a white native from Dallas, Texas. In this book, the author describes his six week experience travelling on Greyhound buses throughout the racially segregated states of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia. During his journey, he often hitch-hiked. All through his journey he passed as a black man.

      This project was financed by Sepia Magazine. In return, the author had to give the magazine the rights to print the account of his journey first in the form of a series of articles in the magazine.

      The author maintained a journal of his experiences all through his journey. Eventually, his 188 page diary became the genesis of the book Black Like Me.

      While the author was writing the book in the year 1959, the race relations were very strained in America and tension prevailed everywhere. Through this book he wanted to explain what difficulties black people face in certain areas.

      To complete his project, with the help of a doctor, Griffin artificially darkened his skin to pass as a black man during his journey.

      Black Like Me was made into a movie in 1964. James Whitmore played the role of the protagonist.

      Eventually, Robert Bonazzi published the book Man in the Mirror: John Howard Griffin and the Story of Black Like Me.

      The title Black Like Me has been taken from the last line of the poem Dream Variations composed by Langston Hughes.

      Chapter Two: Characters

      John Howard Griffin

      John Howard Griffin is the author, protagonist, and narrator of Black Like Me. In fact, he happens to be the only significant character in the novel.

      Howard Griffin is a middle aged white man from the South. He happens to be very passionately committed to the cause of racial justice in 1959.

      He wants to understand the difficulties which are faced by black Americans; he wants to be among the blacks to understand their situation; he

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