In 1959, John Howard Griffin tinted his skin and became "black" for several weeks in the South. His account of that experience is as vital and instructive today as it must have been nearly 60 years ago. Perhaps most disturbing was his contact with white men who gave him rides only to pressure him with lewd and offensive questions about the supposed sexual behaviors of black people. The angry glares from white people and daily humiliations are there, too, as well as the simple kindnesses he received from blacks.
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