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Blues For Mr Charlie Play Analysis

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Segregation has open the door to the people who were born free, to scape those who have power over their heads. In the play Blues for Mister Charlie, Richard a black twenty-two-years old male killed and thrown into the weeds. James Baldwin write this play to emphasize, the life of Emmet till a fourteen-years-old black boy who was killed and thrown in the river. He uses the play to show the life of Till, by adding some information about his life and what his family went through in order to convict the man who killed him the same way Richards family fought for his death. This play show in both ways how racism can obstruct the way justice work. In Eyes on the Prize and in Blues for Mister Charlie, both court room were segregated having Black’s …show more content…

Since Josephine lied in the stand, saying that Richard sexually assault her, when he only spoke to her. As a result, Lyle the man who killed him was found not guilty. Also, in Emmitt trial the killer was also found not guilty because they couldn’t really prove that it was Emmitt body due to the how badly the oppressors bit him, the family realize it was Till because of the ring he had with his initial. So because of segregation two people died for nothing and not given the opportunity to lives as free mans. The effect of this changes throughout the play shows how unfair, justice was and how some white folks set a point of power toward black as Amzi more said “a white man was superior” in Eye on the …show more content…

In both Eye on the Prize and Blues for Mister Charlie, two white’s men were found not guilty even if they were some prove tell the contrary. The death of Emmitt Till and Richard Henry shows that the civil right movement, should have happen way before this black kids died in order to show how cruel, life was if you skin color was black. You can really trust what you say around someone who have some type of disgust around you. After years of been in jail without any freedom the death of Emmitt Till was on step closer to stop

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