The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

John Howard Griffin's "Black Like Me", published in 1961, paints a gloomy picture of what it felt like to be marginalized, ostracized and persecuted because of one's skin color.  Griffin, a White man who darkened his skin color to appear Black, pursues his experiment – six weeks travelling on Greyhound buses and occasionally hitchhiking -- throughout the racially segregated Deep South. He knew that he would experience some persecution, but did not expect such blatant disrespect.

Life as a Black man cuts him deeper as he is profiled, marginalized, accosted, and excluded from all corners of mainstream society.  He sinks into loneliness and depression yet finds solace in the kindness and generosity several people offer along his journey

If you are at all a proponent to end racial profiling and discrimination, this is a great read for you.