![]() ![]() When his sight later miraculously returned, he was struck by how much superficial appearances can serve as obstacles to perception-allowing us to regard certain fellow humans as the “intrinsic other.” This was especially obvious in the case of racism. This experience prompted a deep spiritual journey that included his conversion to Catholicism. Perhaps the roots of Griffin’s experience lay in his earlier 10-year experience of blindness-the result of a war injury. But he is best remembered for his classic work Black Like Me, in which he described his experience in the winter of 1959 when he traveled to New Orleans, darkened his skin, shaved his head and “crossed the line into a country of hate, fear, and hopelessness-the country of the American Negro.” ![]() ![]() His early life was marked by a number of diverse and remarkable experiences. Tomorrow marks the centenary of the writer and activist John Howard Griffin, who was born in Texas on June 16, 1920. ![]()
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