The next day, Griffin visits the dermatologist who administers the treatment. Before he begins the procedure, he has dinner at a nice restaurant that he can return to later as a black man to compare his treatment before and after. He begins his journey in New Orleans, where a doctor is willing to help him darken his skin. He plans to keep track of his observations in a diary. Griffin decides to keep his name and his identity while he travels, only changing the color of his skin. Griffin warns his wife that he may suffer repercussions for his investigation, but she is supportive of his plan. Griffin turns to his friend, businessman George Levitan, who helps him come up with a plan to darken his skin using an anti-vitiligo drug. However, he realizes that he can never really understand what it is like to be black without experiencing it himself. Griffin, a white native of Mansfield, Texas, feels shocked and saddened by the treatment of African-Americans in the Deep South. In 1964, the book was made into a movie starring James Whitmore. Journalist John Howard Griffin’s nonfiction book Black Like Me (1961) explores racism and racial segregation under Jim Crowe laws in Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama.
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