Black like me

Black Like Me Black Like Me states numerous things about the way people used to be and how some still are treated today. This novel is an autobiographical diary of John Howard Griffin, a white journalist from Texas, who undergoes medical treatment to temporarily turn his skin black so he can understand what it is like to be a Negro in a land of racial segregation. Back in the late 1950’s most white people would think it absurd to turn black and go into the south where it was known to be treated like a street-rat. America was two separate and unequal societies- one black and one white with no real communication between the two. Black people were cruelly treated as shown through examples of the white racists, all of John Howard Griffin’s struggles and through my connections with different experiences in present day.
First of all, the Negroes in the South were definitely treated extremely poorly. The various rabid white racists deliberately spew racial poison and almost provoke racia...