description: The battle for civil rights was not won in the sixties - certainly not in many parts of the country. It never touched Oxford, North Carolina, where young Tim Tyson was growing up. In 1970, when a black man was killed in the town square by a Klansman and his sons, and an all-white jury acquitted the murderers, both blacks and whites were swept into a firestorm. Amid the violence and fear that enveloped the town, Tim's father attempted to bring the two sides together, only to be reviled as a traitor to both sides. Tim - now a professor of African-American studies at the University of Wisconsin - has written a memoir of that turbulent summer, and has gone back, thirty years later, to find a remnant of scorched justice.
title: Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
titlecomplete: Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
genres: True Crime, History, African American, Memoir, Biography, American History, Social Justice, Biography Memoir, Race, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3564
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: North Caroliniana Book Award
publisher: Books on Tape