![]() ![]() He tried also at various times to get a job commensurate with his education and was told one occasion that the ""only jobs you can get"" (in mobile) ""are the ones no white man will have"". He began living as a Negro in New Orleans in November of 1959 and spent his time there and later in Mississippi and Alabama looking for what he says white people take for granted: a place to eat, to get a drink of water, a rest room. His journey was sponsored by a Negro magazine. ![]() John Howard Griffin, a Texan, crossed the color line in reverse by darkening his skin with medication used by victims of vitiligo and by exposure to ultraviolet rays in order to undergo the experience of racial discrimination as only a Negro can know it. This is the journal of a white man who lived in the Deep South as a Negro during 1959. ![]()
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