Gwin recounts how Evers's death spurred Baldwin, as emissary to Mississippi and as reporter, to write a play (see excerpt) (4/6)

Evers's death spurs James Baldwin, as emissary to Mississippi and as reporter, to write a play. (See text of an excerpt from James Baldwin's Blues for Mr. Charlie (1964) below.)

Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local, a presentation by Minrose Gwin
southernspaces.org/2008/mourning-medgar-justice-aesthetics-and-local
Published on March 11, 2008

Speaking at Emory University on February 19, 2008, Dr. Gwin considers how attention to historical location and to locally-embodied experiences raises questions about justice, aesthetics, and memory. She examines the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, through writings by James Baldwin, Anne Moody, Eudora Welty, and Margaret Walker.