In the autumn of 1959, a white Texan journalist named John Howard Griffin travelled across the Deep South of the United States disguised as a working-class black man. Black Like Me is Griffin’s own account of his journey.

Published in book form two years later it sold over five million copies, revealed to a white audience the daily experience of racism and became one of the best-known accounts of racial injustice in Jim Crow-era America. Embraced by some and fiercely criticised by others, its legacy sixty years on remains problematic, but Black Like Me nevertheless stands as a fascinating document of its times.

Format: Paperback
Published: UK, 2019
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Pages: 224
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9781788164528
ISBN 10: 1788164520
Edition: Main – Classic Edition