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Griffin visits the offices of Sepia magazine to request funding for his project.
October 29, 1959Griffin consults with a dermatologist about how to darken his skin and begins the process.
November 2, 1959Sterling Williams gives Griffin tips on how to avoid trouble as a black man in New Orleans.
November 8, 1959Griffin meets a number of the important men in the African American community at the YMCA café.
November 8, 1959A menacing white teenager follows and threatens Griffin. Griffin uses his wits to escape harm.
November 8, 1959Disturbing news about the Parker lynch case in Mississippi prompts Griffin to head to Mississippi.
November 14, 1959: MississippiOn a bus, Griffin meets Christophe, a young black man who scorns other black people.
November 14, 1959: MississippiGriffin senses danger in Hattiesburg's ghetto and seeks out his friend P.D. East for refuge.
November 14, 1959: MississippiGriffin hitches rides from white men who ask him uncomfortable questions about black sex practices.
November 19, 1959: Mississippi–AlabamaGriffin looks for work in Mobile, Alabama, for three days with no results.
November 21, 1959: MobileGriffin stays with a sawmill worker and his family in the Alabama swamplands en route to Montgomery.
November 24, 1959In Montgomery, Griffin notices a different atmosphere: a determined spirit of peaceful resistance.
November 25, 1959: MontgomeryGriffin decides to re-enter white society temporarily to study the contrast in how he is treated.
November 28, 1959Griffin visits the Trappist monastery in Conyers.
December 2, 1959: Trappist Monastery, ConyersGriffin and photographer Don Rutledge interview leaders in Atlanta's black community for an article.
December 7, 1959Griffin returns home to his mother, wife, and children in Mansfield, Texas.
December 15, 1959: Mansfield, TexasGriffin travels the country for radio and television interviews.
March 14, 1960: Los AngelesGriffin's parents move to Mexico to escape the hostility they face in Mansfield.
August 14, 1960| Book | Summary |
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| Preface | In his one-page preface to Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin ends with a vivid description of his book as the story of ... Read More |
| October 28, 1959–November 6, 1959 | Griffin's journal entries begin in Texas on the last three days of October 1959, after he reads a troubling report about... Read More |
| November 7, 1959–November 12, 1959 | At Griffin's final visit to the dermatologist, the doctor sends him off, saying, "Now you go into oblivion." Griffin sha... Read More |
| November 14–November 16, 1959 | John Howard Griffin wakes up in New Orleans on November 14 to find African Americans throughout the neighborhood talking... Read More |
| November 19, 1959–November 29, 1959 | Griffin takes a bus back into Mississippi, this time to Biloxi on the Gulf coast. He arrives late at night and finds a d... Read More |
| December 1, 1959–December 14, 1959 | With the stains he used to enhance his skin's darkness, Griffin develops a method of changing back and forth from black ... Read More |
| December 15, 1959–August 17, 1960 | Once John Howard Griffin's travels in the deep South are concluded, he returns to his family in Texas on December 15. Fl... Read More |
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