Mister Charlie
Mister Charlie is a pejorative expression formerly used within the African-American community to refer to an imperious white man.[citation needed] The term is sometimes written as Mr. Charlie, Mister Charley, or other variations."[4] In the 1960s the phrase was associated with the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and became nationally familiar.[5] It appeared in the title of James Baldwin's play Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) and in the third verse of Malvina Reynolds's protest song "It Isn't Nice" (1967): We have tried negotiations / And the three-man picket line, / Mr. Charlie didn't see us / And he might as well be blind.It appears only once on an official label LP release as a live track from their "Europe '72" triple album.