Black Like Me

Black Like Me (1964)

It's All True...Every Living Moment!

Black Like Me is the true account of journalist and author John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.

Date of release
1964-05-20
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Drama
Director
Carl Lerner

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Black Like Me
  • Filmed in: Florida

Black Like Me is a 1964 American drama film based on the 1961 book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. The journalist disguised himself to pass as an African-American man for six weeks in 1959 in the Deep South to report on life in the segregated society from the other side of the color line. The film was directed by Carl Lerner and the screenplay was written by Carl and Gerda Lerner. The film stars James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke and Roscoe Lee Browne.

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