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- It was first produced and published in 1964.
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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. [1] The play is dedicated to the memory of Medgar Evers, his widow and children, and to the memory of the dead children of Birmingham."
- James Baldwin
- 1964
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. “Mister Charlie” is a slang term for a white man.
Blues for Mister Charlie is James Baldwin’s second play. Like Blues for Mister Charlie, his first play, The Amen Corner (1954), interrogates the role of Christianity in Black American life.
Sep 1, 2013 · After an epic binge caused him to be temporarily committed to a mental hospital in California in 1946, the jazz press started publishing articles about his substance abuse, turning him into (in his own wry phrase) “the world’s most famous junkie.”
Blues for Mister Charlie Summary. In a U.S. Southern town in the 1960s, a white storeowner, Lyle Britten, shoots a young Black man, Richard Henry, and throws his body face-down in the weeds. Later, in a Black church, Richard’s father—a minister, Meridian Henry —meets with Black students Lorenzo, Pete, and Juanita, who have been protesting.
When Meridian calls Parnell and all white men “Mister Charlie”—an old-fashioned slang-term for bossy, racist white men—it hints that white racism flattens white as well as Black individuality, making white people behave in predictably destructive patterns.
A three-act play, "Blues for Mister Charlie" begins its first act with Reverend Meridian Henry teaching black students. They’re interrupted by Parnell James, who tells them that the police are about to arrest Lyle Britten for the murder of Richard Henry.
