THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH One of
the deepest most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question.-Atlanta Journal &
Constitution In the Deep South of the 1950's a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana
Mississippi Alabama and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross that 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. What happened to
John Howard Griffin-from the outside and within himself-as he made his way through the
segregated Deep South is recorded in this searing work of nonfiction. His audacious still
chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity every American must
read. With an Epilogue by the author and an Afterword by Robert Bonazzi
