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.

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.

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