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John Howard Griffin

Born

in Dallas, Texas, The United States

June 16, 1920

Died

September 09, 1980

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs

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John Howard Griffin was a white American journalist who is best known for his account, Black Like Me, in which he details the experience of darkening his skin and traveling as a black man through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia in 1959. (The racism that he encountered was so disturbing that he cut short the time that he had allotted for this very unique experiment, clearly demonstrating that no one would tolerate being treated as many blacks are, if he or she could possibly avoid it.)

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Average rating: 4.11 · 69,520 ratings · 3,422 reviews · 40 distinct works • Similar authors

	Black Like Me 4.11 avg rating — 69,341 ratings — published 1961	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision by John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.02 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Follow the Ecstasy: The Hermitage Years of Thomas Merton by John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.57 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1983 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hidden Wholeness: The Visual World of Thomas Merton 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1977 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prison of Culture: Beyond Black Like Me 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil Rides Outside 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1952 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Time to be Human 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1977	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The hermitage journals: A diary kept while working on the biography of Thomas Merton 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	land of the high sky 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Available Light: Exile in Mexico 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

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“Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. It was so new I could not take my eyes from the man's face. I felt like saying: "What in God's name are you doing to yourself?”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

tags: fear, hate, humanity

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“It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

tags: depression, despair, emotion, frustration, self-control, self-discipline

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