Timothy B Tyson: 3 books
Blood Done Sign My Name
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The “riveting”* true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina—a classic portrait of the fight for civil rights in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird
*Chicago Tribune
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old...
Radio Free Dixie
Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and forever altered the arc of American history. In the late 1950s, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, branch of the NAACP, Williams and his followers...
by Timothy B. Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
* Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017 * An Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Southern Book of 2017 *
This extraordinary...