![]() ![]() Griffin, a lantern-jawed and chestnut-haired white man, deliberately darkened his skin and spent six weeks travelling through the harshly segregated southern states of America, revisiting cities he knew intimately, in the guise of a black man. ![]() ![]() Black Like Me, the book in question, had been published three years earlier in November 1961 and it had led to its author being both venerated and vilified. The attack was not random the beating represented a particularly brutal form of literary criticism: Griffin was being punished for having written a book. It took Griffin five months to recover from the assault. Griffin assumed the men were heading over to assist him but instead they dragged him away from his car and proceeded to beat him violently with chains before leaving him for dead. O ne day in 1964 John Howard Griffin, a 44-year-old Texan journalist and novelist, was standing by the side of the road in Mississippi with a flat tyre. ![]()
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