![]() ![]() To complete the illusion, Griffin used dyes to cover uneven areas and closely cut his hair. Once there, under the care of a dermatologist, Griffin underwent a regimen of large oral doses of the anti-vitiligo drug Methoxsalen, trade name Oxsoralen, and spending up to fifteen hours daily under an ultraviolet lamp. ![]() In the autumn of 1959, John Howard Griffin went to a friend’s house in New Orleans, Louisiana. Under the care of a doctor, Griffin artificially darkened his skin to pass as a black man. ![]() In 1959, at the time of the book’s writing, race relations were particularly strained in America Griffin’s aim was to explain the difficulties facing black people in certain areas. Griffin kept a journal of his experiences the 188-page diary was the genesis of the book. Sepia Magazine financed the project in exchange for the right to print the account first as a series of articles. Griffin was a white native of Mansfield, Texas and the book describes his six-week experience traveling on Greyhound buses (occasionally hitchhiking) throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia passing as a black man. ![]() Black Like Me is a non-fiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961. ![]()
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