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John Howard Griffin (JHG) is a specialist for the hard life of Negroes in the south of the USA in the 1950's. His idea is to change the color of his skin for being able to experience the discrimination on his own. He visits George Levitan, one of his old friends and owner of the magazine SEPIA. After discussing the idea, Levitan pays for all the expenses for changing JHG's skin color and his trip through the south of the USA. He flies to Louisiana to meet doctors which can finally help him to find the fitting medicine to change the color of his skin from white to black.The therapy for changing his skin color has started, he takes special pills and as to sit under a sun lamp. The doctor's tests were all positive and there will be no problems for JHG to change from white to black and back to white. The doctor likes the project. Unfortunately the treatment does not work as rapidly as expected. After everything is said between JHG and the doctor, the doctor sends him with the words "Now you go into obliviton" away. Now JHG is on his own in New Orleans and stays in different hotels where he continues his treatment. During he fi
Than he tells that one could kill a Negro and no one would ever know what happened to him. In this time, Mississippi is considered to be the state with the most discrimination. Every Negro he meets is extremely helpful to him. November 28thJHG goes from his hotel to the ghetto, were he tries how it is to get along with the people living there. , an old friend, who takes him to his home to stay there for a few days. Levitan, his friend from the SEPIA magazine calls and asked if he plans to publish his work, JHG wants to. In-between, the pressure on him gets bigger and bigger. Till end of February, the news becomes known. Bad news reaches him from Sterling: In Mississippi, a white man who has killed a Negro has been found innocent by the jury. After JHG has to get off his truck because the man leaves the highway, he continues walking until he reaches a small service station where he buys some food. On December 14th, everything was finished, and John Howard Griffin would never be a Negro again, he made his final change into white society. After discussing with her he gets his ticket to Hattiesburg. Together with the photographer he meets all the important black leaders in Atlanta, and he recognizes that Atlanta is the most encouraged city in the south in solving "the problem".
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