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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

Timothy Tyson

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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

Blood Done Sign My Name was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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 gripping narrative brings gritty blues truth and soaring gospel vision to a shocking episode of our history.

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Publisher
Crown
Year
2007
ISBN-13
9780307419934
Genre
History
Topics
Civil rights movementRacial violence in the South1970s American race relations

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