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Black Like Me

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Black Like Me
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NR,1hr 47min
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January 1, 1964
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Synopsis: Black Like Me is the true story of white journalist John Howard Griffin, who "became" a Negro in the late 1950s. Feeling that the best way to understand what it was like to be black in a segregated south was to experience the feeling first-hand, Griffin (James Whitmore) undergoes extensive-and sometimes painful-skin pigmentation treatments. Though he tends to look more like Al Jolson or Eddie Cantor rather than African American, Whitmore does a creditable job playing a proud man forced into subservience ... Full Synopsis
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John Finley Horton
Dr.Jackson
Tom Newcomb
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