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Author QuotedJohn Howard Griffin
Title QuotedBlack Like Me
Date (Year/Month/Day)1962/03/24
ImprintBoston : Houghton Mifflin. 1961
QuotationYesterday finished the [John Howard] Griffin book Black Like Me, moved and disturbed. As someone said-what there is in the South is not a Negro problem but a white problem. The trouble is pathological.
Quotation SourceTurning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 213
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