Black Like Me by John Howard GriffinMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
e book review of the 50th anniversary edition. The author literally "walks in the shoes" of a Negro in 1959 and bears witness to the inhumanity of Jim Crow culture. Excellent writing that causes the reader to deeply understand and have empathy for the struggle of the average black person in that time period. The book also includes an interesting afterword regarding his life prior to the journey in the Deep South (France studies at age 15, French resistance, saving Jewish children from the Holocaust, a period of blindness after sustaining a head injury during WWII service, and his religious beliefs.) It details his activism after the book publication and summarizes his writings until his death in 1980. The 50th anniversary edition is a good book to understand the culture of racism and institutional racism.
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