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Blood done sign my name : a true story / Timothy B. Tyson.

Tyson, Timothy B., (author.).

Summary:

The author returns to his hometown of Oxford, North Carolina, to make sense of the thirty-year-old murder of a black man by a Klansman, and the Klansman's subsequent acquittal by an all-white jury.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780609610589
  • ISBN: 0609610589
  • ISBN: 9781400083114
  • ISBN: 1400083117
  • Physical Description: vii, 355 pages ; 26 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, ©2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-344).
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Target Audience Note:
1240L Lexile

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Tyson, Timothy B. > Childhood and youth.
African Americans > Crimes against > History > North Carolina > Oxford > 20th century.
Murder > North Carolina > Oxford > History > 20th century.
Trials (Murder) > North Carolina > Oxford.
Riots > North Carolina > Oxford > History > 20th century.
White people > North Carolina > Oxford > Biography.
African Americans > North Carolina > Oxford > Biography.
North Caroliniana.
Oxford (N.C.) > Race relations.
Oxford (N.C.) > Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.

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