![]() ![]() Griffin discussed his plans to travel as a black guy with Sepia magazine, and the publication agreed to publish a series of articles about his travels. ” Black passengers around him at that moment frowned in disapproval. ![]() Let the whites stand if they won’t sit with us. “I recognized that I was going ‘against the race,’ and the subtle tug-of-war became suddenly evident,” writes Griffin. On one bus ride, he half-rose from his seat to offer it to a tired-looking middle-aged Caucasian woman. John Howard Griffin looked for work for several weeks, made friends, received threats, was harassed, and sat in the rear of the bus as a black guy. To help darken his complexion, John Howard Griffin used a sunlamp | Photo appears in Griffin’s book, Black Like Me ![]()
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