Black Like Me

The classic about crossing the colour line in the segregated south. The Deep South of the late 1950s was another country: a land of lynchings, segregated lunch counters, whites-only restrooms, and a colour line etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. White journalist John Howard Griffin, working for the black-owned magazine Sepia, decided to cross that line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man... This simple act was enough to make him hated, enough to nearly get him killed. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity every American must read...