Griffin consults a dermatologist in the city, and the doctor gives him medication that will darken his pigmentation. Setting off from his home in Mansfield, Texas-and leaving behind his wife and small children-Griffin goes to New Orleans, where he stays with a friend without telling him what, exactly, he’s doing (he does this because he wants to protect this companion from any negativity that might come his way as a result of the project). Although Levitan thinks the idea is crazy, he agrees to pay for Griffin’s expenses in return for a number of articles about the experience. A religious man and an active journalist, Griffin turns to George Levitan, the editor of Sepia magazine, for help with his endeavor. The author and protagonist of Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin is a white journalist who disguises himself as a black man to understand the experience of African Americans in the South during the late 1950s.
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