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Black like me (Motion picture)

The true story of a white writer in the early 1960's who chemically changes the color of his skin in order to experience life as a black man in the South.

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  • "The true story of a white writer in the early 1960's who chemically changes the color of his skin in order to experience life as a black man in the South."
  • "The true story of a white writer in the early 1960's who chemically changes the color of his skin in order to experience life as a black man in the South."@en
  • "A white writer chemically changes the color of his skin in order to experience life as a black man in the South."@en
  • ""Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man. John Horton takes treatments to darken his skin and leaves his home in Texas to travel throughout the South. At one stop, Horton encounters a black shoe shine man, Burt Wilson, who befriends him and shows him how to 'act right' so that he can fit more easily into the African American culture."--Container."@en
  • "The true story of a white newsman in the early 1960's who chemically changes the color of his skin in order to experience life as a black man in the South."
  • "After chemically altering his skin and hair to convincingly pass as a black person, reporter John Howard Griffin travels through the racially-torn South of the 1960's to personally experience and write about racism and prejudice."@en
  • "After chemically altering his skin and hair to convincingly pass as a black person, reporter John Howard Griffin travels through the racially-torn South of the 1960's to personally experience and write about racism and prejudice."
  • "A laserdisc version of the film. Based on the true story of John Howard Griffin, a white journist who dyed his skin black during the racial unrest of the late 1950s and travelled throughout the segregated South of the United States. Griffin later wrote about the racist atrocities he experienced in a series of controversial articles. Though the film is dated and occasionally patronising, its basic themes still retain relevence."@en
  • "Based on the landmark memoir by John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me stars James Whitmore as Griffin, who medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through Mississippi and Alabama. Along the way he experienced firsthand both crushing racism and the incredible life force of the Afro-American communities."@en
  • "The true story of a white writer in th early 1960's who chemically changes the color of his skin in order to experience life as a black man in the South."@en
  • "A white magazine reporter changes the color of his skin and moves to a series of small southern towns so he can experience life as a black man."@en
  • "A white magazine reporter changes the color of his skin and moves to a series of small southern towns so he can experience life as a black man."

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  • "Biographical films"@en
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Documentary films"@en
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Nonfiction films"@en
  • "Film adaptations"@en
  • "DVD-Video discs"

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  • "Black like me (Motion picture)"@en
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  • "Black like me"
  • "Black like me"@en

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