His biographer says he had to learn "the Floridian dialect," which would place his stay in the Florida or Nggela Islands, just north of Guadalcanal, where a significant campaign had just taken place in 1942-43. He spent a year in 1943-44 as the only white person on one of the Solomon Islands, where he was assigned to study the local culture he even went so far as to marry. He then served 39 months stationed in the South Pacific in the United States Army Air Corps. He also helped to smuggle Jewish children to safety and freedom. At 19, he worked as a medic in the French Resistance army, where he was in charge of a psychiatric hospital. Griffin was born in Dallas, Texas to John Walter Griffin and Lena May Griffin, née YoungAwarded a scholarship, he studied French and literature at the University of Poitiers and medicine at the École de Médecine. He wrote about this experience in his 1961 book Black Like Me. He is best known for darkening his skin and journeying through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia to experience segregation in the Deep South in 1959. John Howard Griffin was an American journalist and author much of whose writing was about racial equality. Education-University of Poitiers (France) Ecole.In Terris Peace and Freedom Award (Catholic Church) Awards-National Council of Negro Women Award Pacem.His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity-that in this new millennium still has something important to say to every American. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. A dramatic true story about crossing the color line in the segregated Deep South.
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