Blood Done Sign My Name
On a summer day in 1970, ten-year-old Tim Tyson was playing with his neighborhood friend, Gerald Teel, when Gerald whispered to him, “Daddy and Roger and ’em shot a nigger.” That murder set in motion a racial conflict that rocked the small tobacco town of Oxford, North Carolina.
Timothy B. Tyson, professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, offers more than a personal account of the events surrounding the murder of Henry “Dickie” Marrow, 23, a black military veteran. His book is also a candid examination of the African-American struggle for freedom.
Timothy B. Tyson, professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, offers more than a personal account of the events surrounding the murder of Henry “Dickie” Marrow, 23, a black military veteran. His book is also a candid examination of the African-American struggle for freedom.
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