Embraced by some and fiercely criticized by others, its legacy sixty years on remains problematic, but Black Like Me nevertheless stands as a fascinating document of its times. Published in book form two years later it sold over five million copies, revealed to a white audience the daily experience of racism and became one of the best-known accounts of racial injustice in Jim Crow-era America. Black Like Me is Griffin's own account of his journey. In the autumn of 1959, a white Texan journalist named John Howard Griffin travelled across the Deep South of the United States disguised as a working-class black man. Popular Crime & Action Series Expand submenu.
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