It was even so successful that it was translated into fourteen different languages and made into a movie. Soon after, the book became a modern classic and sold ten million copies. In Black Like Me, there are multiple instances where Griffen is discriminated against and he becomes “annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.” The book was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award one year after it was published to honor its important contribution to explaining racism and the appreciation of rich diversity of human culture. Griffin’s experiment began at a time period when African-Americans lived under racial segregation. The book Black Like Me is a nonfiction that was first published in October of 1961 by a white journalist and author named John Howard Griffin recounting his journey in the Deep South beginning in November of 1959 after undergoing multiple skin treatments in order to change the color of his skin temporarily.
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