naenaebug 's review for:

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

4.0

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An eye opening book of a first hand account of someone going "under cover" as a black man in the south in the 50s. It is pretty upsetting to know that it had to take something like this to get a lot of attention (not to say that other efforts were not successful because they obviously were, but this was such a big deal because of his position and connections to get his story out) of the ramifications of racism in the reconstruction era and into the Civil Rights movement.