The Hermitage Journals: A Diary Kept While Working on the Biography of Thomas Merton

8" x 5.25".  Designated the official biographer of Thomas Merton, John Howard Griffin spent many months between August 1969 and September 1972 living in Merton's dwelling on the monastery grounds of Trappist, Kentucky, following the.monk's daily routine of prayer and study.  he kept a careful daily journal of his visits there, recording his profoundest observations -- details of everyday life inside and outside the hermitage.

The hermitage journals: A diary kept while working on the biography of Thomas Merton

Griffin, John Howard

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The author recounts his own experiences traveling through the South in the guise of a Black man and offers reflections on developments in the area of civil rights since 1959

Black Like Me

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment 50 years ago. In order to learn firsthand how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another, he dyed his white skin dark, left his family, and traveled to the South to live as a black man. What began as scientific research ended up changing his life in every way imaginable. This is an eyewitness account of discrimination and segregation that is terrifying and degrading, and its publication caused a furor. As narrated by Ray Childs, this first-ever recording of Black Like Me will leave each listener deeply affected. John Howard Griffins groundbreaking and controversial work helped bring the full effect of racism to the forefront of Americas conscienceand it has lessons to be learned over half a century later.

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The author tells of his experiences after he darkened his skin and traveled through the South in order to find out how it feels to be black.

THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH“One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question.”—Atlanta Journal & Constitution   In the Deep South of the 1950’s, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross that line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man.   What happened to John Howard Griffin—from the outside and within himself—as he made his way through the segregated Deep South is recorded in this searing work of nonfiction. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity every American must read.  With an Epilogue by the author and an Afterword by Robert Bonazzi

He trudged southern streets searching for a place where he could eat or rest, looking vainly for a job other than menial labor, feeling the "hate stare". He was John Griffin, a white man who darkened the color of his skin and crossed the line into a country of hate, fear, and hopelessness--the country of the American Black man.

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The hermitage journals: A diary kept while working on the biography of Thomas Merton

Black Like Me

Black Like Me

Black Like Me

Black Like Me

Black Like Me

Black Like Me

Black Like Me

Black Like Me

Black Like Me