Blood Done Sign My Name.
- UNCP Author/Contributor (non-UNCP co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Robert Arndt, Reference/Instructional Services Librarian (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP )
- Web Site: http://www.uncp.edu/academics/library
Abstract: “Stories can have sharp edges,” states Tim Tyson in the Author’s Notes of Blood Done Sign My Name. Thirty years after hearing a 10 year old playmate tell him that his father and brother beat and killed Henry Marrow in public, Tyson examines the racial conflict and riots of Oxford, NC in 1970 and the culture that allowed such an event to take place and that allowed Robert and Roger Teel to be acquitted of both murder and manslaughter charges. The tensions of racial conflict and desegregation in Oxford were the same as those being felt throughout North Carolina and the rest of the South. Blood Done Sign My Name explores the motivation behind Marrow’s death and the riots afterwards.
Blood Done Sign My Name.
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Additional Information
- Publication
- North Carolina Libraries, vol.63, no. 1
- Language: English
- Date: 2005
- Keywords
- Book Review, Desegregation, Racial Conflict, Racism, , Southern States, Timothy Tyson, Mary Williams