![]() Threats were made to John Howard Griffin that he would be castrated. Another time, a burning cross was placed in the schoolyard of a black school. ![]() The effigy of him was half black, half white. John Howard Griffin was hanged in effigy on the main street of his own hometown. The threats that forced the Griffins to move were terrifying. His family received threats, and as a result, they had to move to Mexico. ' Black Like Me ostensibly chronicles John Howard Griffins experiences as a black man. Black Like Me became a bestseller in 1961, but many were hostile towards him and his works. Nevertheless, as Griffin realizes, it is an extremely dangerous attitude when coupled with black poverty, because it creates a market in which black girls become prostitutes for money, and black men become white mens pimps. Throughout the sixties, blacks were accused of crimes they didn't commit whether it was using a white bathroom and then getting arrested because two white men claimed he indecently exposed himself or a black man standing in a room alone with a white woman and being arrested for harassment.Īfter Black Like me was published, John Howard Griffin became somewhat of a celebrity. He came to realization it was all about stereotypes and the whites thought differently about the blacks than they actually were and the blacks characterized the white than they actually were. ![]() Griffin says after his experience was over that no one was actually judging him by the qualities as a human individual and everyone was judging him by his pigment. ![]()
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