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Author QuotedJohn Howard Griffin
Title QuotedBlack Like Me
Date (Year/Month/Day)1967/08/12
ImprintBoston : Houghton Mifflin. 1961
QuotationI am looking for a photograph, taken by John Howard Griffin, the one who chemically changed the color of his skin so as to live among black people, and wrote a tremendous book [Black Like Me] about this experience.
Quotation SourceThe Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.; Selected and edited by Christine M. Bochen. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1993, p. 206
Letter toHernan Lavin Cerda
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