John Howard Griffin was born into an average all american, conservative, white family in Texas. He became a well rounded journalist while in the midst of his career wanted to know what it was like to endure the life of a black man in the U.S at that time.
QuotesThe moment John Howard Griffin began his journey in New Orleans down in the Deep South as a southern black man, was the moment he started to learn the other side of racism.
“Yes, and then it’s these things that cause the whites to say we’re not worthy of first-class citizenship.”(Griffin, 40) “ There was nothing of the feel of America here. It was rather some strange country suspended in ugliness.”(Griffin,61) This quote is the layout of not only the journey itself but the continuous conflict of Man vs Society. Yet better put Blacks vs Whites. |
White vs BLack
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