white journalist from Texas, who undergoes medical treatment to

temporarily color his skin black, so that he can understand what

it is like to be a Negro in a land of racial segregation. It is a

journal of the authors personal experiences living as a Negro.

For six weeks the author from Texas, hitchhikes or

walks, takes a bus or trudges the streets of four other Southern

states of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia, all of

which treat the Negroes as tenth class citizens.

The author of the book. He is a sensitive white journalist. The whole book

is a shocking account of his personal experiences, when he transforms

himself temporarily into a Negro for six weeks. During this period, he

suffers raw hate and violence, crudity and inhumanity, from the

He sets out on a personal quest to discover what it is really like to be a Negro. He

experiences how, many freedoms and rights that he enjoyed as a

privileged white are now forbidden to him. This is a grim and

bitter eye-opener for him. In addition, he encounters many racial

the latter’s body will be exposed to ultraviolet rays after he

numbers of innocent Negroes towards becoming black racists

be staying in the days to come, is like.

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