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Author:

Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980.

Title:

Black like me : the definitive Griffin estate edition, corrected from original manuscripts / John Howard Griffin ; with a foreword by Studs Terkel ; historic photographs by Don Rutledge ; and an afterword by Robert Bonazzi.

Edition:

50th anniversary hardcover ed.

Publisher:

Wings Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xiii, 208 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions.
Southern States--Race relations.
Griffin, John Howard,--1920-1980.
Texas--Biography.

Contents:

Preface, 1961 -- Deep South journey, 1959 -- Photographs / by Don Rutledge -- The aftermath, 1960 -- Epilogue, 1976 -- Beyond Otherness, 1979 -- Afterword, 2011 / Robert Bonazzi.

Summary:

Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges for this very reason. Regardless of how much progress has been made in eliminating outright racism from American life, Black Like Me endures as a great human and humanitarian document. In our era, when "international" terrorism is most often defined in terms of a single ethnic designation and a single religion, we need to be reminded that America has been blinded by fear and racial intolerance before. As John Lennon wrote, "Living is easy with eyes closed." Black Like Me is the story of a man who opened his eyes, and helped an entire nation to do likewise.

ISBN:

0916727688
9780916727680

LCCN:

2011378350

Locations:

WCPC115 -- Alta Community Library (Alta)

MWPB943 -- Dayton Public Library (Dayton)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

MUPB553 -- Whittemore Public Library (Whittemore)