Black like me the definitive Griffin estate edition, corrected from original manuscripts

Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges for this very reason. Regardless of how much prog...

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Main Author: Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: San Antonio, Tex. : Wings Press, 2004.
Edition:1st Wings Press ed.
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245 1 0 |a Black like me :  |b the definitive Griffin estate edition, corrected from original manuscripts /  |c John Howard Griffin ; with a foreword by Studs Terkel ; historic photographs by Don Rutledge ; and an afterword by Robert Bonazzi. 
250 |a 1st Wings Press ed. 
260 |a San Antonio, Tex. :  |b Wings Press,  |c 2004. 
300 |a xiii, 239 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-239). 
505 0 |a Black like me -- Preface, 1961 -- Deep south journey, 1959 -- Photographs by Don Rutledge -- The aftermath, 1960 -- Epilogue, 1976 -- Beyond otherness, 1979 -- Afterword, 2004 / Robert Bonazzi. 
520 |a Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges for this very reason. Regardless of how much progress has been made in eliminating outright racism from American life, Black Like Me endures as a great human ₆ and humanitarian ₆ document. In our era, when "international" terrorism is most often defined in terms of a single ethnic designation and a single religion, we need to be reminded that America has been blinded by fear and racial intolerance before. As John Lennon wrote, "Living is easy with eyes closed." Black Like Me is the story of a man who opened his eyes, and helped an entir 
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