ISBN 0-930324-73-0, Wings Press, TX
Foreword by Studs Terkel. Additional texts by the author. Historical photos by Don Rutledge. Afterword by Griffin biographer, Robert Bonazzi
Winner of: Saturday Review Anisfield-Wolfe Award, 1962 Pacem in terris Award (shared with John F. Kennedy), 1963 Christian Culture Gold Medal (Canada), 1966 Pan African Association Award for Humanism, 1980A journal-like book documents the experiences of a Caucasian man in racially volatile times, travelling through the states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana as a black person. Participating in an experiment that darkens his skin appearance, the writer meets with hatred and ill treatment during his journey. Prominent scenes on a bus and the reinforcement of daily difficulties like an amenities room permissible to African American people resonate long after the reader has put the book down. Highly recommended for its sociological and cultural value, the literary work still stuns 51 years after its original publication.
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