After John Howard Griffins book was published not only in the magazine but as a critically acclaimed novel Griffin received numerous death threats and hate mail.
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Conservative Americans who were so strongly against what Griffin had published had came to his home town in Texas and burned an effigy of him.
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The hate and social punishment Griffin and his family endured after the publication was so extreme that the safest place for them was in Mexico. He moved him and his family to Mexico to protect them from the intense population of critics.
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