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Blues for Mister Charlie is James Baldwin's second play, a social commentary drama in three acts. It was first produced and published in 1964. The play is dedicated to the memory of Medgar Evers, his widow and children, and to the memory of the dead children of Birmingham."
The Blues for Mister Charlie Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
Blues for Mister Charlie, tragedy in three acts by James Baldwin, produced and published in 1964. A denunciation of racial bigotry and hatred, the play was based on a murder trial that took place in Mississippi in 1955.
Blues for Mister Charlie told of the murder of a young black man in Mississippi in 1955 and was dedicated to Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in his front yard in Jackson Mississippi on June 12, 1963.
7 de may. de 1997 · In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race.
"Blues for Mister Charlie" is James Baldwin's dramatization inspired by the murder of Emmett Till, exploring racial tensions and injustice in a Southern town...
29 de dic. de 2020 · Isaac Butler joins hosts Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols to discuss James Baldwin’s play Blues for Mister Charlie (1964), written to address the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till. In this episode we discuss the troubled performance history of the play.
