Article on John Howard Griffin's Speech at Miami University
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Article on John Howard Griffin's Speech at Miami University
Subject
newspapers, civil rights
Description
An article on a speech given at Miami University by John Howard Griffin, author of "Black Like Me", on the dehumanization of African-Americans. Griffin, a white American, darkened his skin and shaved his head and recorded the ways he was treated differently in order to highlight the prejudice against African-Americans in the Deep South.
Source
This item is part of the exhibit thanks to the gracious loan of materials by Miami alumna Carolyn Gordon.
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Citation
“Article on John Howard Griffin's Speech at Miami University,” Revisiting Oxford, accessed October 5, 2024, http://spec.lib.miamioh.edu/revisitingoxford/items/show/20.