Dec 22, 2009

The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia | The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia

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Author: Preston Jones
First Published: 1976
Type of Work: Play
Type of Plot: Comedy
Time of Work: 1962
Setting: Bradleyville, Texas
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Subjects: 1960’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Tradition, South or Southerners, Prejudices or antipathies, West, U.S., Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Small-town life, Texas
Locales: Bradleyville, TX

Characters Discussed

Ramsey (Ramsey-Eyes) Washington Blankenship, the elderly black custodian of the Cattleman’s Hotel. He is an obliging, amiable widower who finds the mumbo jumbo of the Knights of the White Magnolia more amusing than threatening. At seventy-five years of age, he is set in his ways and content with his simple life. He lacks racial bitterness, despite the fact that the Knights, excepting Colonel Kinkaid, treat him with contempt. Although slow and shuffling, he is not the ignorant and illiterate fool they take him to be. In the breakup of the last meeting of...

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The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia | The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia

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