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What was Griffins motivation to conduct his race experiment?
Report stating suicidal tendencies among southern negroes were on the rise.
Mr. Legit an owned sepia which was?
The magazine that would receive some articles at the completion of the project.
Where does Griffin begin his project?
New Orleans, LA
How was griffin able to dark in his skin?
By taking an oral medication normally prescribed for victims of vitiligo (loss of pigment in skin, especially noticeable in darker complected individuals) and exposing skin to sun lamps.
Why did he use a stain?
He used a stain in order to enhance his tone.
What were the side effects of the increased dosage of medication?
He is tired and is experiencing nausea.
What was the phrase the doctor revealed to griffin from his previous encounters with negroes?
“The lighter the negro the more trustworthy he is.”
What was griffins reaction to his reflection after he transforms himself into a negro?
He doesn’t recognize himself and he is astounded at the transformation.
What do the hawkers at the club try to entice?
The white griffin to see the Semi-naked girls inside.
When do the hawkers change?
When griffin has become negro and they ignore him because he appears to be a negro.
What was the name of the first hotel griffin stays as a negro?
The butler.
What is the name of the man who runs the shoe shine stand?
Sterling Williams
Who does he reveals his plans to, and why?
Sterling Williams, as a way to transition to the Negro world.
As the shoe shine man and griffin talk, what does sterling begin to do?
Sterling begins to include griffin as part of the “we”, meaning negroes.
Griffin notices some whites who come to the shine stand and talk candidly because?
They were asking where they could find a negro girls for sexual exploits.
Griffin uses sensory images and imagery to describe what?
Life at the stand with this sentence: “odors of sweat, tobacco, coffee and damp stone around us, overladen always by the smell of fish nearby salt water.”
Who does griffin meet at the YMCA coffee shop?
Meets several negro leaders, elegant men who speak of “the problem”.
What do they feel must happen in order for the negro to succeed?
Negroes need to be more unified; they need a “saint” to unite them. Their talk seems to foreshadow the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther king, jr.
As the cafe closes who is Mr. Griffin introduced to?
J.p Guillory. Mr. Guillory seems to recognize Mr. Griffins name and asks for the titles of some of his books.
Why did Mr. Guillory’s “face blank with astonishment”?
Because he recognized the mans name as being that of a white man, yet Guillory was looking A at what appeared to be a negro man.
A young man threatens griffin as?
As he tries to return to the y for his second night with Mrs. Davis.
How does griffin avoid being hurt by the white teen?
By growling at the white teenager, and threatening to hurt him.
How does the owner YMCA cafe summaries the problem, the catch-22 for the negro In the south?
When he says the black tries to succeed by educating himself, but then cannot find work equivalent (equal to) with his training. The white suppresses even the “cream of the crop” (the most highly educated) to live in poverty.
Why did the negro populace awake on the morning of November 14 1959 with a “glum and angry” face?
Because a Mississippi jury refused to indict anyone in the Parker lynch trial, in which white supremacist dragged a young negro out of a jail cell and hung him (lynched him).
