oject to the Dean and his beautiful wife. “But you told me you were simply too busy,” Gandy laughed. launched into bitter complaints, wanting to know why Dean Gandy had not insisted he give the lecture today. The Dean, a handsome, cultivated man of great wit, had just returned from a trip. He stopped deep in the campus at the cottages provided for the faculty and we went in to meet Dean Sam Gandy. cursed these richly and made the typical “Southern white” remarks about “Did you ever see such a damn beautiful campus for a bunch of nigras. We drove through slowly, of necessity, since the campus drives have cement ridges every forty or fifty feet that would cause your car to bump badly if any speed were attempted. A green, spacious campus with white buildings, great trees streaming Spanish moss. took me to Dillard University, one of the two Negro universities in New Orleans. Black Like Me John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi (Afterword) 4.10 66,844 ratings3,139 reviews What was it like, really like, to be black in the deep South Novelist John Howard Griffin darkened his skin and set out to discover by personal experience the night side of American life. It is a damming testament to racism back then and begs the question ‘how far have we progressed in light of events of this year in America and in the UK.“P.D.
This account does just that and the pain and humiliation experienced is severe. To truly understand someone else’s pain, you need to walk a mile in their shoes. It reveals the daily experience of racism and became one of the best known accounts of racial injustice in America. It is very revealing, quite horrific but fascinating at the same time. He immersed himself into the culture of 1950’s America, travelling across the deep south and putting himself in considerable danger at times. The author, a white Texan journalist, conducted an experiment in which he changed his white self to pass for a working class black man. The Guardian described this book as a brutal record of segregated America… Essential reading. Black like Me – John Howard Griffin (Publisher, Serpents Tail) Free Essay: The author and main character of Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin, is a white middle aged newspaper columnist.
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