John Griffin is a white man who undergoes extreme measures to become a black man and walk around the southeast in the late 50s. What he finds is astounding.

Griffin's writing is exact, poignant, and prophetic. Though this was written over 50 years ago, much in Griffin's writing needs to be heard today. I wish I had been introduced to this book much earlier in my life and would've had the chance to wrestle with these difficult questions in my earlier years, especially as a white female growing up in the south where there were rumours that the KKK was mildly active (no one I knew, thankfully).

White people, read this book. There is so much that slips by us, that we don't understand. We can't understand it all, but this is a start.