Black Like Me (1964) on Netflix
John Finley Horton, a white journalist, darkens his face and hands until he can pass for a black man. He travels the Deep South to report on life under segregation.
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Plot summary
John Finley Horton, a white journalist with liberal views, sets out to report on the segregated South as its black residents live it. Using various means, he darkens his face and his hands, and in part his body, until his appearance lets him pass as a black man. His trip lasts several weeks and carries him through the Deep South, with time spent in places that include New Orleans and Atlanta. Along the way, racism reaches him from white people and from black people alike.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Black Like Me (1964)
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- The film dramatizes a real experiment: a journalist disguised himself to pass as an African-American man for six weeks in 1959, traveling the Deep South to report on life under segregation from the other side of the color line.
