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On October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his ownhe made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of discovery was once captured in journal entries, arguably the single most important documentation of 20th-century American racism ever written. More than 50 years later, this newly edited editionwhich is according to the original manuscript and includes a new design and added afterwordgives fresh life to what’s still regarded as a recent book.” The story that earned respect from civil rights leaders and death threats from many others endures today as one of the crucial great humanand humanitariandocuments of the era. In this new century, when terrorism is too ceaselessly defined in relation to a single ethnic designation or religion, and the first black president of the US is subject to hateful slurs, this record serves as a reminder that The us has been blinded by fear and racial intolerance before. This is the story of a man who opened his eyes and helped an entire nation to do likewise.