Played by James Whitmore and renamed John Finley Horton for the movie adaptation, he uses a combination of drugs, sunlamps, and makeup to darken his white complexion and then travels through the South posing as an African-American drifter on the lookout for cheap lodgings and low-wage jobs. Share Black Like Me (1964), based on the book of that title by John Howard Griffin, tells the unlikely tale of a bold, flawed, and enduringly controversial experiment carried out by a journalist whose lack of training in social science was balanced by deep curiosity and a profound sense of indignation over some of the ugliest aspects of 20th-century American society.
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