The Story Black like me by John Howard Griffin was published in 1960 at the start of the Civil Rights movement. The author, who is a white man from Texas, decided to take a trip through 4 different states which are Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia as a black man. He goes through a medical treatment to temporarily turn his skin black, so that he can see what it is like to be black in the time when people were racist. He wrote down all of his experiences and thoughts down in his little notebook that he keeps, he writes his feelings, and his thoughts about his surroundings and about every single person he meets. By turning himself a different color, he can see what it is like to be a black person that has to deal with racism in the south. When he changed his skin color to black, he quickly notices that the blacks treated him with respect while the white people treat him with anger and hatred. The Jim Crow laws were legal and social restrictions that separated African Americans from white Americans. There were many parts in the book where the Jim crow laws were in effect during the book. For example, the part where john goes from his hotel to the ghetto he learned he must never take a look at white women in anyway because they will tell their husband on you and that will cause problems. Another thing that john learns is that there are many different types of classes in the ghetto the lowest eat the rests of the ones who work to get at least a little bit of food. Later on that day he gets chased by a white person, but he got lucky and decides to leave him alone. Another Example is when john is nicely dressed up looking for a job but in all places he goes it is the same outcome, nobody wants him because of his skin color. The only job he got was shining the shoes of white men with his friend sterling whom he met from being in the ghetto. John is not allowed eat in the restaurants that he has been eating at the week before, and w