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Title: Blood Done Sign My Name
Author: Timothy B. Tyson
Narrator: Timothy B. Tyson
Format: Abridged
Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-20-04
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 35 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
Like many small Southern towns, Oxford, North Carolina, 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. While lawyers battled in the courthouse, the Ku Klux Klan raged in the shadows and black veterans torched the town's tobacco warehouses. With large sections of the town in flames, Tyson's father, the pastor of Oxford's all-white Methodist church, pressed his congregation to widen their vision of humanity. In the end, however, the Tyson family was forced to move away.
Years later, historian Tim Tyson returned to Oxford to ask Robert Teel why he and his sons had killed Henry Marrow. "That nigger committed suicide, coming in here wanting to four-letter-word my daughter-in-law," Teel explained. The black radicals who burned much of Oxford also told Tim their stories. "We knew if we cost 'em enough goddamn money they was gonna start changing some things," one of them explained.
In the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird, Blood Done Sign My Name is a classic work of conscience, a defining portrait of a time and place that we will never forget. Tim Tyson's riveting narrative of that fiery summer and one family's struggle to build bridges in a time of destruction brings gritty blues truth, soaring gospel vision, and down-home humor to our complex history, where violence and faith, courage and evil, despair and hope all mingle to illuminate America's enduring chasm of race.
Critic Reviews:
"Outstanding....Tyson's avoidance of stereotypes and simple answers brings a shameful recent era in our country's history to vivid life. This book deserves the largest possible audience." (Publishers Weekly)
