John traveled to Deep South to of Alabama and Miscopy. There were no comfortable rest rooms where blacks were allowed. The cashier refused to cash his check it was impossible to get a job. John was expecting oppression, prejudice, and hardship. His first contact Sterling Williams is a soft-spoken shoe shiner. John begins a new life as a black man in New Orleans. The book is a thrilling text with a radicalism that tells a story of a man who undergoes medical treatment to change his skin to black in order to infiltrate the black community. Black like me is Griffin’s own story while coexisting with the black community. John frustration takes him to Mansfield in Texas. The central themes to be dealt with in this review include racial profiling by the judicial system and the baseless segregation of the blacks. He sets out to explore the experience of the Black people, but he could not just find it in books. Motivated by the socio-political dynamics John Howard Griffin take a bold but unusual step. Black Like me is a unique nonfictional book that has the author as the main character.
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