•Miraculously Griffin’s eye sight
started coming back in 1957 and he was able to see again
•Griffin wrote a couple of books that
were semi-popular in nature
•Facing the birth of his third child,
and the need for income, he decided to embark on an interesting
experiment
•Still concerned with the issue of
race, he decided to conduct an experiment to live life as a Black Man and left
for New Orleans with a contract to send Sepia articles