James Baldwin at the Selma March
American essayist, novelist, and playwright James Baldwin (center) addressing a crowd after participating in the Selma March in Alabama in support of African Americans' voting rights, March 1965.
Blues for Mister Charlie
play by Baldwin
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. Baldwin dedicated the play to Medgar Evers, a civil rights activist who was murdered in Mississippi in 1963. The story concerns Richard Henry, a Black man who...
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