John Howard Griffin, both author of Black Like Me and prominent journalist, sets out to discover what life was really like as a black man in the Deep South. He darkened his skin, using sunlamps and medication, in order to study just that. He was most likely not ready for what he was about to embark upon, including harsh discrimination and denied civil rights. Griffin encounters many racial barriers that exist between whites and Negroes, creating a racial divide. These blockades thoroughly destroy the dignity and self worth of the Negroes themselves.
An example of this occurs while Griffin rode a bus. When the white passengers got off the bus during the rest stop, the bus driver prevented the Negro passengers from departing. The Negroes were about to urinate all over the bus, but they decided it would just be another thing for the whites to hold against blacks. "The whites would start claiming that we were unfit, that Negroes did not even know enough to go to the rest room- they......
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