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Video: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of "Black Like Me"

Wings Press trailer for 2010-2011 celebration of John Howard Griffin and the 50th anniversary of "Black Like Me"

Let's honor John Howard Griffin's work by actively exploring and acting on unconscious racism

What would the world be like had America truly learned about Griffin's identification unconscious white racism and had acted even in individual ways on his belief that there is no "other"?

Fifty Years with Black Like Me

By Dan Robertson

Black Like Me: A Modern American Classic

By Robert Bonazzi

Published in the Modern American Classic edition of Black Like Me, Penguin Group, 2010

In 1959 John Howard Griffin—a white novelist from Texas disguised as a Negro—began a six week journey through the segregated Deep South. Fifty years later his personal testament for human rights has become a modern American classic.

Encountering John Howard Griffin

A Remembrance by Robert Bonazzi

Originally published in the The San Antonio Express-News

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John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me turns 50 on November 1, 2011.

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