The book I read was called "Black Like Me" and the author is John Howard Griffin. John Howard Griffin is also the main character, author, and narrator of the story. He is a middle-aged white southerner who wanted racial justice in 1959. His plan is to make his skin color darker and posing as a black man. He calls medical information services and tells them what he plans to do and they give him three names of some Dermatologists. The first name on the list he gives a call and gets an appointment immediately. He is exposed to ultraviolet rays and takes a medication orally. Within a week he looks like a black man. He then makes sure us has full support from George Levitan who is the editor for a black-oriented magazine called Sepia. This magazine is going to fund Griffin's excursion. Everywhere he goes he is insulted and experiences difficulties. He can't find jobs or bathrooms to use that he had no problems using when he was a white man. No one takes his money and is bullied around all the time by white people. It's been several days now and Griffin decides to travel to Mississippi and Alabama, which happens to be worse than New Orleans. He is very tired and losing hope and calls P.D. East who is a white newspaperman. P.D. East also is very opposed to racism. Griffin spends one day with P.D. East and they talk about how the legal code of the south is influenced by writers and politicians. After spending the day with his friend he ventures throughout Alabama and Mississippi. In Montgomery however Martin Luther King J.R. shines no light on the black community. Its called passive resistance and it's a nonviolent way to deal with the racist laws. He starts to switch from a black man to a white man because he is starting to lose hope in the whole plan (this is the climax of the story). He will first go somewhere as a black man and then go to the same place as a white man and spot the differ...