What is the cycle of oppression? What are the four steps of the cycle? What was racial oppression like in 1950s America? In 1959, John Howard Griffin wrote Black Like Me to convince white Americans that the U.S. was not the racism-free country they thought it was. The book describes Griffin’s account of the segregated South and the cycle of oppression faced by Black Southerners. Read on to learn more about the cycle of oppression in the 1950s, according to Griffin.
How the Cycle of Oppression Shaped 1950s America
