racism

Here's the ad Newt Gingrich has been running in South Carolina since Monday night's debate.

In The Help, set during the civil rights era, an aspiring
journalist decides to write a book about the African-American domestics
in the small Missis­sippi town where she grew up. The movie, adapted by
Tate Taylor from Kathryn Stockett's best seller, is a glossy Hollywood
potboiler that uses a serious theme and historical context as cover.

In 1970 a black man named Henry “Dickie” Marrow was murdered in Oxford, North Carolina, allegedly for making a sexual comment to a white woman. Despite eyewitness testimonies, the killers, who were known to be Klansmen, were acquitted by an all-white jury. Vernon Tyson, a United Methodist minister, was one of two white people who attended Marrow’s funeral. His son Timothy was 10.

Read the CENTURY's interview with Timothy Tyson, author of Blood Done Sign My Name.