A white man learns what it's really like to be a Negro in the South in 1959 by darkening his skin and traveling through the southern states. The book is a tragic affirmation of the intense hostility between the two races in that time period.
The author, a white man, recounts his experiences when he darkened his skin and traveled through the South as an African-American man. Epilogue covers events in the field of civil rights since 1959.
