Black Like Me: What is it Like, To Be A Negro in the Deep South Today? (A Signet Book, Complete and Unabridged) [41st Big Printing]
by John Howard Griffin
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John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) is known internationally as the author of two novels, Nuni and The Devil Rides Outside , five books and monographs on racism in addition to Black Like Me , a biography of Thomas Merton , three collections of photography, a volume of journals, two historical works on Texas, a musicological study, and The John Howard Reader . Born in Dallas, Texas, and educated in France, he served in the U.S. Air Force in the South Pacific, where an injury he received during a Japanese bombardment eventually resulted in the complete loss of his sight. In the 1950's he converted to Catholicism, married, and raised a family. In 1957, (after ten years of blindness) he miraculously regained his sight.
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- Black Like Me: What is it Like, To Be A Negro in the Deep South Today? (A Signet Book, Complete and Unabridged) [41st Big Printing]
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- John Howard Griffin
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- Mass_market
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- Used - Good
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- Signet Books/ Published by The N
- Date Published
- 1961T
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