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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger." Those words, whispered to ten year old Tim Tyson by a playmate, heralded a ? restorm that would forever transform the tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina. On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty three year old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased and beat Marrow, then killed him in public as he pleaded for his
"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger." Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by a playmate, heralded a ?restorm that would forever transform the tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina. On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased and beat Marrow, then killed him in public as he pleaded for his life. Like many small Southern towns, Oxford had barely been touched by the civil rights movement. But in the wake of the killing, young African Americans took to the streets. While lawyers battled in the courthouse, the Klan raged in the shadows and black Vietnam veterans torched the town's tobacco warehouses. Tyson's father, the pastor of Oxford's all-white Methodist church, urged the town to come to terms with its bloody racial history. In the end, however, the Tyson family was forced to move away. Tim Tyson's riveting narrative of that fiery summer brings gritty blues truth, soaring gospel vision, and down-home humor to a shocking episode of our history. Like To Kill a Mockingbird, Blood Done Sign My Name is a classic portrait of an unforgettable time and place.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 05/03/2005
ISBN: 9781400083114
Pages: 355
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.26w x 0.81d
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I'm still reading it but its a great book. It makes me think about how much ...
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I'm still reading it but its a great book. It makes me think about how much money is invested in keeping poor and people of color populations in prison. The prison industrial complex is no joke. This book provides the studies, chart and details of what I always thought. There's plenty of money to be made keeping the 'right people in prison' and finding new victims such as immigrants and school kids.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2015
★★★★★ 4
This was a good expose on how our government secures monies without you ...
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This was a good expose on how our government secures monies without you being aware of it for use in their useless game of punishment and the ultimate ruination of the towns in which they place these freaking Hell-holes
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Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2017
★★★★★ 5
Everyone should read this, it affects us all
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Incisive, informative, well-researched critique not only if the prison complex but of reform efforts that feed into it.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2019
★★★★★ 5
READ LEARN, LIBERATE CONSCIOUSNESS AND GROW
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TO LEARN OF THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND WHAT IT DOES, IS, AND SIGNIFIES, TAKES A SWEET INSPIRATIONAL LIFE ALTERING AND TOUCHING PERSON SO READ THIS AND OTHERS AND FEEL THE COMPELLIING SUCCESS OF NO LONGER BEING FOOLED
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Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2013
★★★★★ 5
If you want a historically accurate account of the growth ...
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If you want a historically accurate account of the growth of the carceral state, skip the New Jim Crow and read this book.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2018