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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
by Timothy B. Tyson
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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, led by 22-year-old Ben Chavis, a future president of the NAACP. As mass protests crowded the town square, a cluster of returning Vietnam veterans organized what one termed "a military operation." While lawyers battled in the courthouse that summer in a drama that one termed "a Perry Mason kind of thing," the Ku Klux Klan raged in the shadows and black veterans torched the town's tobacco warehouses.
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Author joins Duke faculty
Tyson's book 'Blood Done Sign My Name' is UNC reading assignment
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
July 3, 2005
Author: PAUL BONNER
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The author of UNC's freshman reading assignment, "Blood Done Sign My Name," joins Duke University's faculty this month.
Timothy Tyson, who remains a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will be a visiting professor of American Christianity and Southern culture at the Duke Divinity School. He also will be a senior scholar of documentary studies at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke.
Tyson will be teaching two courses and taking part in the Divinity School's new Center for Reconciliation, which will focus on issues of race in North Carolina, Mississippi and South Africa, he said.
"Blood Done Sign My Name," Tyson's account of the 1970 racially charged killing of a black man in Oxford, will keep him busy, as well, with several discussions and speeches on the Chapel Hill campus scheduled for late August, Tyson said Monday. As a 10-year-old living in Oxford at the time, Tyson was a witness to the aftermath of the slaying.
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I think it should be pointed out Tim Tyson is white. His father was the minister at Oxford United Methodist Church, the white Methodist church, at the time the events in the book took place. Tim Tyson was 10 at that time.