Black Like Me

 

November 25:

 

• Why is the atmosphere different in Montgomery?  What are the “keynotes” of their attitude?

 

November 27:

 

• What decision has JHG made?

 

November 29:

 

• What is ironic about JHG’s situation (what happened at the end of this journal)?

 

December 1:

 

• Explain the anecdote about the drunk white man.

 

• JHG alludes to three different ways seemingly sympathetic white people reveal their true feelings.  Name two of them.

 

• What happens on JHG’s bus trip to Alabama?

 

December 7:

 

• List the three reasons JHG has discovered are at the root of change in Alabama.

 

February 26-March 17:

 

• What are some of the reactions to JHG’s experiment?

 

June 19:

 

• What do many white Southerns say they fear more than Negros?

 

Epilogue:

 

• Despite change in the 60’s, what is the one troubling thing that JHG saw in communities that asked for his assistance?
• What is the meaning of “take 10”?
• What is fragmented individualism?
• What was the negative consequence of the emerging black identity?