ngenious, very creative, and even a bit daring. Not many people would like to experience that drastic change of lifestyle. However it was a very efficient way of discovering precisely what it was like to be a black man in the 1950s. There really was not any other way for Griffin to have researched his project and get more accurate results.John Howard Griffin mentioned throughout his journal some social and economical problems that the Negro in the South was facing at that time. He had a critical concern about the Job opportunities of Negroes. He noticed that the economic gap between whites and blacks was enormous. It was very rare for a black man to find a decent job during this era. A black man with exceptional intelligence and aptitude for a job would lose it to a white man even if the white man incompetent and half as qualified. These are the social problems Griffin was troubled by.The black mans economic situation also left a lot to be desired. The Negroes go out seeking employment with constantly shutting in their faces. They come home, discouraged and find a low paying job that barely pays off rent. The white people call them lazy. Whites wonder why there is so much crime in the black neighborhoods they do not realize what some of them deal with everyday. Blacks could not be expected to keep up with white society when they only got about five percent of the opportunities and options that whites had.Through this book, John Howard Griffin has successfully portrayed a black man in the South as honestly as he could. Griffin initially set out to see if his hypothesis was correct. He also wanted to dig as deep as he could for answers. His compassionate spirit and big heart could not rest until he saw with his own eyes what he hoped was not true. The trials and tribulations he experienced were trying and sometimes seemed unbearable. It was atrocious some of the monstrous ways that normally polite people would act based ...
