In 1964, a film version of Black Like Me, starring James Whitmore, was produced. The title of the book is taken from the last line of the Langston Hughes poem "Dream Variations". When he started his project in 1959, race relations in America were particularly strained. Griffin kept a journal of his experiences the 188-page diary was the genesis of the book. Sepia Magazine financed the project in exchange for the right to print the account first as a series of articles. He traveled for six weeks throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Georgia to explore life from the other side of the color line. Griffin was a native of Mansfield, Texas, who had his skin temporarily darkened to pass as a black man. Black Like Me, first published in 1961, is a nonfiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin recounting his journey in the Deep South of the United States, at a time when African-Americans lived under racial segregation.
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