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American journalist and author from Texas who wrote about racial equality. He is best known for his project to temporarily pass as a black man and journey through the Deep South of 1959 to see life and segregation from the other side of the color line. He first published a series of articles on his experience in Sepia Magazine, which had underwritten the project. He published a fuller account in a book Black Like Me (1961). This was later adapted as a 1964 film of the same name. A 50th anniversary edition of the book was published in 2011 by Wings Press. Griffin married twice and had four children. He died in Fort Worth, Texas on 9 September 1980 at the age of 60 from complications of diabetes. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
Born: June 16, 1920 in Dallas, Texas, USA
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