Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B Tyson
Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger. Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by a playmate, heralded a ?restorm that would forever transform the tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina. On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased and beat Marrow, then killed him in public as he pleaded for his life. Like many small Southern towns, Oxford had barely been touched by the civil rights movement. But in the wake of the killing, young African Americans took to the streets. While lawyers battled in the courthouse, the Klan raged in the shadows and black Vietnam veterans torched the town's tobacco warehouses. Tyson's father, the pastor of Oxford's all-white Methodist church, urged the town to come to terms with its bloody racial history. In the end, however, the Tyson family was forced to move away. Tim Tyson's riveting narrative of that fiery summer brings gritty blues truth, soaring gospel vision, and down-home humor to a shocking episode of our history. Like To Kill a Mockingbird, Blood Done Sign My Name is a classic portrait of an unforgettable time and place.Timothy B. (Timothy B.) Tyson is a Senior Research Scholar at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, a Duke Divinity School Visiting Professor of American Christianity and Southern Culture, and an adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His novel Blood Done Sign My Name was a National Book Critics Circle Prize finalist and winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion. He is a member of the executive board of the NAACP in North Carolina.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780609610589 |
| ISBN 10 | 0609610589 |
| Title | Blood Done Sign My Name |
| Author | Timothy B Tyson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
| Year published | 2004-04-15 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Winner of Christopher Awards (Books for Adults) 2005, Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2004 |
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