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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (259700)	9/1/2014 1:04:27 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542946

"Did his makeup ever smudge? Did he ever sweat and and ruin his jheri curl. " Nope. His beauty was more than skin deep, and so was his hair. John Griffin was shocked by the racial animosity in the south, So he decided to go undercover as an African American man. He went to a dermatologist in New Orleans once he there he went under a regimen of large doses of a drug called Methoxsalen and spending up to 15 hours daily underneath a ultraviolet lamp to darken his skin. To complete his illusion Griffin uses dyes on the uneven parts of the skin and also cut his hair and shaved the back of his hands to protect his disguise. Once the transformation was complete Griffin was off to experience the world from a African American male point of view ahighlanderslife.wordpress.com