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by OneFunFellow 2008 days ago
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

The premise was simple: In 1959 a white reporter used makeup to make himself have black skin. He then traveled around the southern USA. Even as a child it was easy to see how people treated him differently even though he was a white man underneath. The racism was undeniable.

Animal Farm, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451 gave me even more reasons to question authority.