Black Like Me By John Howard Griffin

Colored people have gone through a lot over the course of the years. They have been through so many hardships and still do to this day. They’ve experienced slavery, discrimination, unfairness, prejudice and so much more. Black people have been treated badly and insulted. In the nonfiction novel, Black like Me, by John Howard Griffin, he is a white man who is against racial discrimination and prejudice. John decides to change his pigmentation to live as a black man in the south. He wants to experience the bad treatment black people go through daily. The main character of the book is John Howard Griffin, who is also the narrator and author. He is a white middle aged southerner. John is committed to racial justice and is very passionate about it. He wants to learn more about it and wants fairness and equality between all. John meets other characters along the way as he travels down south. They help him more with his experience as a black man. The story starts in 1959 in the Texas. When he becomes black, John travels down south to places such as New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama. John believes these are all places where discrimination in the black community is the worst and that’s why he chooses to go there. What happens is that John changes the color of his skin and tries to experience his life as a black person. He explores the black communities and learns how they live. John goes through hardships and receives a lot of insults from white people. He