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Blues For Mister Charlie

A Play

by James Baldwin

1964 121 pages eng ★ 4.5 (4 ratings)

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. For where once a white…

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