John Howard Griffin, author of "Black Like Me," died Sept 9, 1980. In darkening his skin and traveling through the Deep South, he explored the effects of dehumanization, both for the perpetrators and the victims of oppression.
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"Future historians will be mystified that generations of us could stand in the midst of this sickness and never see it, never really feel how our System distorted and dwarfed human lives because they happened to inhabit bodies encased in a darker skin."
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