![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Except in Montgomery, where they had started practicing passive resistance, a nonviolent form of refusing to comply with racist laws and rules. He stops to take his medications at times and goes from black to white and vice-versa, and he concludes that conditions for blacks are appalling and that the black community seems to feel defeated. After his first experience in New Orleans, John travels throughout Alabama and Mississippi, where he proves the same thing again, and again, the black community is living miserable, and they are treated as if they were not part of the society and more like if they were slaves. That’s where his experience of living as a black man started. ![]() For that he traveled to New Orleans where he had a contact in the black community who helped him undergo the ultraviolet light and oral treatment. For that, he would undergo a treatment to darken his skin color. He was against racism in the south and wanted to do a social experiment to expose to the country and world how the black community was treated. He was a white man who lived in Mansfield, Texas, back in 1959. The book titled Black Like Me was written by John Howard Griffin, who, in this case, he plays the role of the author and main character in the book. ![]()
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