Awarded a musical scholarship, he went to France to study French language and literature at the University of Poitiers and medicine at the École de Médecine.
His mother was a classical pianist, and Griffin acquired his love of music from her. Griffin was born in 1920 in Dallas, Texas, to John Walter Griffin and Lena May Young. A 50th anniversary edition of the book was published in 2011 by Wings Press. This was later adapted into a 1964 film of the same name. He first published a series of articles on his experience in Sepia magazine, which had underwritten the project, then later published an expanded account in book form, under the title Black Like Me (1961). He is best known for his 1959 project to temporarily pass as a black man and journey through the Deep South in order to see life and segregation from the other side of the color line first-hand.
John Howard Griffin (J– September 9, 1980) was an American journalist and author from Texas who wrote about and championed racial equality.
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