Even more interesting are the effects the author’s experiment has on his family, particularly his wife and children, especially since it was before a time when it was socially acceptable for white children to attend school with black children. They lived fairly isolated from one another, used separate restrooms, and went to different hotels, stores, restaurants, movie theaters, and other businesses. John Howard Griffin believed that in order to truly understand the black perspective, he would need to become
Even more interesting are the effects the author’s experiment has on his family, particularly his wife and children, especially since it was before a time when it was socially acceptable for white children to attend school with black children. They lived fairly isolated from one another, used separate restrooms, and went to different hotels, stores, restaurants, movie theaters, and other businesses. John Howard Griffin believed that in order to truly understand the black perspective, he would need to become