Blood Done Sign My Name - A True Story (Paperback)

""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.

General

Imprint:	Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2005
First published:	May 2005
Authors:	Timothy B Tyson
Dimensions:	203 x 132 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-1-4000-8311-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-4000-8311-7
Barcode:	9781400083114

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