John Howard Griffin posing as a black man in the Deep South as part of an experiment to see life and segregation from the other side of the colour line. He later published a book about it titled Black Like Me, 1959 - History Education Network

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John Howard Griffin posing as a black man in the Deep South as part of an experiment to see life and segregation from the other side of the colour line. He later published a book about it titled Black Like Me, 1959

Categories: 1900s

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