A Tribute to John Howard Griffin, the Civil Rights Activist Who Dared to be “Black Like Me” DVD: See Below Trailer SEPIA Magazine cover featuring John Howard Griffin This documentary looks at the remarkable life of John Howard Griffin, a citizen of the world who stirred the conscience of a nation. Griffin is best known as the white man who, in 1959 at the height of U.S. racial discrimination, disguised himself as a black man and then traveled anonymously through the racially