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Originally Posted by Danzig
i wonder if any one has ever dressed and made themselves up to look black, to see if they're treated differently....anyone know?
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Yes, but in a long ago era..Back in mid 70's my father-in-law, a Baptist Minister from Ky gave me this book,Black Like Me..think i still have it somewhere in the attic..quite a read..also made a movie..here's the story..
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Black Like Me is a nonfiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961. Griffin was a white native of Dallas, Texas and the book describes his six-week experience travelling on Greyhound buses (occasionally hitchhiking) throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia passing as a black man. Sepia Magazine financed the project in exchange for the right to print the account first as a series of articles.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me
and the movie..
Black Like Me 1964NR
A white man medically alters his pigment and reinvents himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through the South. Along the way, he experiences firsthand crushing racism and the incredible life force of the Afro-American community.
Cast:James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke, Roscoe Lee Browne, Al Freeman Jr., Robert Gerringer, Clifton James, John Marriott, Thelma Oliver