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JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN:
MAKING THE CHOICE TO MAKE HISTORY
Trina Edwards
English 1106
Professor Carl Bean
November 3, 1998

Being black and in the South in 1959 could only be described as hopeless frustration. Absolute and unbending segregation plagued the South (Branch, pp. 272-311; Williams, pp. 37-90). At this time, the Civil Rights Movement was well under way (Branch, p. 272). Leaders of The Movement such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks became, and still are, household names. A name with which we are not as familiar, however, is John Howard Griffin, author of Black Like Me. Griffin was a white journalist who subjected himself to a medical treatment that temporarily changed his skin color so that he appeared to be a black person rather than a white person. For six weeks, Griffin traveled throughout the South documenting his encounters as he presented himself as the same person he had always been but with a different skin color. His experiences were then and even today are thought to be severely troubling because he exposed the South’s disgusting brutality and inhumanity when it came to segregation and discrimination. By temporarily circumventing his ascribed status, John Howard Griffin crossed a racial bridge in a way that enlightened us all to the vast difficulties associated with being a minority in this ostensibly free culture as documented in his 1962 novel Black Like Me.
At the time of the experiment, John Howard Griffin lived in Mansfield, Texas, with his wife and two children. As a journalist for Sepia, a black-owned magazine, Griffin was selected by the members of the magazine’s management to enact a scheme they had devised to have a journalist “go underground” as a black person and report firsthand on the experiences encountered in everyday life by a black person. George Levitan, owner of the magazine, provided funding for this experiment – covering the expenses for the pigmentation-altering medical treatments to which Griffin agreed to subject himself and the expenses required to enable Griffin to travel throughout the South in search of experiences as a black man. Levitan agreed to cover these expenses in return for the magazine receiving rights to be the first to publish the articles that were to be written by Griffin as a result of his experiences as a black person. Both Levitan and Griffin knew that perilous risks lay ahead for Griffin. They both knew that Griffin would experience discriminati...

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