Byline: Lawrence Otis Graham; 1992-08-17; New York Magazine; pages 26 - 34, print version
Report: "Invisible Man: Undercover at a Greenwich Country Club" - Lawrence Otis Graham - New York Magazine
Tags: bigotry, greenwich, posed as, racism, undercover, worked as
Article LinksI drive up the winding lane past a long stone wall and beneath an archway of 60-feet maples. At one bend of the drive, a freshly clipped lawn and a trail of yellow daffodils slope gently up to the four-pillared portico of a white Georgian colonial. The building's six huge chimneys, the two wings with slate-gray shutters, and the white-brick façade loom over a luxuriant golf course. Before me stands the 100-year-old Greenwich Country Club—the country club—in the affluent, patrician, and very white town of Greenwich, Connecticut, where there are eight clubs for 59,000 people. I'm a 30-year-old corporate lawyer at a midtown Manhattan firm, and I make $105,000 a year. I'm a graduate of Princeton University (1983) and Harvard Law School (1988), and I've written eleven nonfiction books. Although these might seem like good credentials, they're not the ones that brought me here. Quite frankly, I got into this country club the only way that a black man like me could—as a $7-an-hour busboy.
Description:Lawrence Graham, a Harvard alum and lawyer, goes to work as a busboy in a Greenwich country club.
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