![]() ![]() He also discovered that the all-pervading and malign influence of segregation hung over him to the point where it caused a near breakdown – even in such a short time. Griffin discovered that everyday existence was made deliberately difficult for a black man, who might spend a good part of his day looking for somewhere to eat, drink, rest or use the toilet. ![]() Not surprisingly he discovered that this was a self-serving fantasy propagated by those who touted the idea that the rights agenda would only upset what was a happy and ordered social apple cart. ‘ led essentially the same kind of lives whites know, with certain inconveniences caused by discrimination and prejudice’. ![]() He wanted to test the idea that black people: He did this in order to experience, as best he could, the life of a black man. He travelled through New Orleans, parts of Mississippi and into South Carolina and Georgia over a period of weeks in 1959. John Howard Griffin disguised himself as a black man by the use of medication, sun lamps and dye. ‘Rest at pale evening / A tall slim tree / Night coming tenderly / Black like me’ – from, ‘ Dream Variations‘ by Langston Hughes ![]()
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