#14 -- Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

This book was out of my normal reading selections.  I had heard about this book before but had never read it.  I saw it at the library and snatched it up and was determined to read it.  At first I got into it and then it became a little more difficult, but I kept reading page after page reading about all his experiences.

Here is a description about the book, "In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line.  Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man.  His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity-that in this new millennium still has something important to say to every American."
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Like-John-Howard-Griffin/dp/0451208641

I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a smart read and learn a little bit about the history and the south.