Howard Griffin Land O Toys shirt

After he had walked along a highway from Biloxi heading toward Mobile for many hours on Nov. 20, 1959, a series of white Mississippian drivers, without any initial menace, willingly transported John Howard Griffin at least part of the way toward Alabama. Griffin had been living as a Black man in New Orleans and Hattiesburg for nearly two weeks. He had taken a prescription drug, exposed his skin to an ultraviolet lamp for days, and touched up his appearance with darkening cream in order to pass as a Black writer in the South.