Black Like Me

In 1964, just as Washington was passing the Civil Rights Act, some of Hollywood's most passionate activists interpreted John Howard Griffin's brave chronicle Black Like Me for the screen, with James Whitmore starring as the writer, who, in 1959, medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through the Jim Crow south. Whitmore's Griffin experiences firsthand both crushing racism and the incredible life force of the Afro-American community.