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Author:
Bonazzi, Robert, author.
Title:
Reluctant activist : the spiritual life and art of John Howard Griffin / Robert Bonazzi.
Publisher:
TCU Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
457 p. ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Griffin, John Howard,--1920-1980.
Griffin, John Howard,--1920-1980.
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
Catholic converts--United States--Biography.
Authors, American.
Catholic converts.
Civil rights workers.
United States.
1900-1999
Biography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introductory. John Howard Griffin -- Strangers in the mirror -- Text of the body -- The journal -- Part I. Acts of immersion -- The great silence -- Experience into fiction -- Darkness and light -- Part II. Black like me -- Deep South journey -- Aftermath -- Exile in Mexico -- Part III. Contradictions -- Censorship and human rights -- Reluctant activist -- Transitions and trances -- Part IV. Rediscovering solitude -- Lightning strikes -- Schools of humility -- Against all odds -- Final years -- The Griffin legacy.
ISBN:
0875656668
9780875656663
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1028236075
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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