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Black Like Me is a 1964 American drama film based on the 1961 book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. The journalist disguised himself to pass as an African-American man for six weeks in 1959 in the Deep South to report on life in the segregated society from the other side of the color line.
James Whitmore plays a white reporter who darkens his skin to experience racism in the segregated South. The film is based on John Howard Griffin's book and features scenes of eye-opening discrimination and violence.
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- Drama
- Carl Lerner
- 1964-05-20
Walter Mason. Mason. Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. This fact-based film chronicles the journey of a white reporter, John Finley Horton...
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- Carl Lerner
- Drama
- James Whitmore
Jan 27, 2015 · black like me, james whitmore, 1964. Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man. John Horton takes treatments to darken his skin and leaves his home in Texas to travel throughout the South.
James Whitmore as Horton, a white journalist posing as a black man, having taken a room in a neighborhood where blacks are threatened, then flashing back on the pitch he made to publisher Eli (Clifton James), in , 1964, from the non-fiction book by John Howard Griffin.
- Carl Lerner, Edward Wells
- James Whitmore
Black Like Me, first published in 1961, is a nonfiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin recounting his journey in the Deep South of the United States, at a time when African-Americans lived under racial segregation.
A white reporter darkens his skin to experience racism in the segregated South. He befriends a black shoeshine man, faces harassment and discrimination, and tells his story to a civil-rights activist.
