Blood Done Sign My Name A True Story

Name: Blood Done Sign My Name A True Story
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ISBN: 9781400083114

ISBN-10: 1400083117

ISBN-13: 9781400083114

Edition: N/A

Authors: Timothy B. Tyson

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“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…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/3/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.94" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English




Baptism



Original Sins



"Too Close Not to Touch"



Miss Amy's Witness



King Jesus and Dr. King



The Death of Henry Marrow



Drinkin' That Freedom Wine



Our "Other South"



The Cash Register at the Pool Hall



Perry Mason in the Shoeshine Parlor



We All Have Our Own Stories



"Go Back to the Last Place Where You Knew Who You Were"


Epilogue: Blood Done Sign My Name


Author's Note


Notes on Sources


Acknowledgments