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Black Like Me is a non-fiction book written by caucasian journalist John Howard Griffin about his experiences passing as a black man in the segregated South in 1959. To effect the ruse, Griffin underwent skin treatments to darken his skin. Griffin was transformed by the change in skin tone to the point that people he met as a white man did not recognize him.

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