Black Like Me Black Like Me is a non-fiction book about John Howard Griffin, a white native from Mansfield, Texas, and his six-week experience traveling through the segregated south states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, passing as a black man. Griffin’s goal of this experiment was to be able to explain, in his novel, the difficulties encountered by racism that black people had to deal with on a daily basis. Before beginning his journey and experiment, John Griffin made one promise to himself. He decided that the only thing that hewould change about himself would be the color of his skin and he would shave his head because he did not want anyone to notice his hair. John believed that the only way he would really be able to understand the true reasoning behind racism was to be himself. John Griffin did not change his name, his clothing or his personality. He was going to be the same individual as a black man because he wanted to figure out if racism had to deal with the color of someone’s skin or because of the type of personality a person portrayed. On November 1, 1959, John Griffin left his wife and children and traveled from Mansfield, Texas into New Orleans, Louisiana as a white man. For the first day, John Griffin was treated with dignity and respect until he artificially darkened his skin, with the help of a doctor. From this time forward, a lot changed for John Griffin. Staying at the Hotel Monteleone, a very prestigious hotel, on his first night as a white man, to not having a place to sleep on the second night passinga black man, proved a lot to John Griffin. John Griffin noticed that some people he had conversed with before would barely even look at him now. John found it very difficult to find a job and even more difficult to locate a restroom that would allow black people to use it. The cashier’s at local stores even made it hard on him to cash his checks because they figured the check would be worthless. John Griffin encountered...