Bibliograph

Blood done sign my name, [a true story], Timothy B. Tyson

Type

Label

Blood done sign my name, [a true story], Timothy B. Tyson

Language

eng

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

memoirs

Main title

Blood done sign my name

Medium

sound recording

Oclc number

55480654

Responsibility statement

Timothy B. Tyson

Series statement

Random House Audio voices

Sub title

[a true story]

Summary

In this outstanding personal history, Tyson, a professor of African-American studies who's white, unflinchingly examines the civil rights struggle in the South. It ocuses on the murder of a young black man, Henry Marrow, in 1970, a tragedy that dramatically widened the racial gap in the author's hometown of Oxford, N.C. Tyson portrays the killing and its aftermath from multiple perspectives, including that of his contemporary, 10-year-old self and his progressive Methodist pastor father

Target audience

general

Classification