John Howard Griffith's Suicide Summary

The report mentions the rise in suicide among southern Negroes George Levitan owner of Sofia an international distributor Negro middle aged man he made his final editorial directing He arrived by plane and went to hotel Monteleone in french quarrel when he was blind, he came there and learn cane walking in the french quarter. In the morning John Howard Griffith called the medical information people and he asks for the names of some prominent dermatologist they gave him three names later the doctor should tempt it with a medication taken orally followed by exposure to ultraviolet rays he then Explained they used it on the victim of vitiligo a disease which causes white spot to appear on the face and body. And it usually takes 6 weeks to 3 months
to darken the skin pigmentation. "Our people aren't educated because they either can't afford it or else they know education won't earn them the jobs it would a white man. walking through the ghetto he realize that every person whom he has talked to had acknowledged a double problem for Negro "First the discrimination against him. Second and almost more grievous, against himself' John Howard remembered a Negro says "You can live here all your life, but you'll never get inside one of the great restaurants except as a kitchen boy" The Negroes only salvation from complete despair lies in his belief of his forefathers that these things are not directed at him personally but against his own race. A white man back then might never come close to understanding racial discrimination except if they go through an experiment such as Griffin’s, but there is still a chance they would still be racist. Not really back then because almost all white folks, it Was kinda foolish of him to even attempt it, but at the same time it wasn’t foolish because he was trying to show people how racial discrimination affects some people's lives.