Under the care of a doctor, Griffin artificially darkened his skin to pass as a black man. In 1959, at the time of the book’s writing, race relations were particularly strained in America Griffin’s aim was to explain the difficulties facing black people in certain areas. 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. Griffin was a white native of Mansfield, Texas and the book describes his six-week experience traveling on Greyhound buses (occasionally hitchhiking) throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia passing as a black man. Black Like Me is a non-fiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961.
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