Griffin john howard5/20/2023 ![]() It had never occurred to me to question it.” As Griffin later said, “I had simply accepted the ‘customs’ of my region, which said that black people could not eat in the same room with us. Griffin was a gifted child, and between his truly exceptional memory and perfect pitch, he was admitted into a French boarding school at the age of 15, where he was shocked to see that black students not only attended classes with whites, but patronized the same public places (like cafes) as well. ![]() ![]() An extraordinary man, John Howard Griffin packed a lot of living into a relatively short life.īorn on June 16, 1920, John Howard Griffin was raised in Fort Worth, Texas, at a time when even his well-meaning, Christian family (who were otherwise kind, if paternalistic) considered black people to be inferior. He wrote of his experience in Black Like Me, published in 1961, and the book became a clarion call to many who had previously turned a blind eye to racism in America. In the fall of 1959, a white writer from the American South shaved his head, darkened his skin and spent the next six weeks on an odyssey, travelling from New Orleans through Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia as a black man. ![]()
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