Tim Tyson

Tim TysonTim Tyson is one of our local great writers, as well as an historian. He currently serves as Senior Scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story (Paperback)

By Timothy B. Tyson
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9781400083114
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Published: Broadway, 5/2005
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Local writer & historian Tim Tyson's third book, BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME, is part personal memoir, and part history: the saga of the murder of a black man in Oxford, NC, in 1970, as well as the actions that followed. It is an amazing book, and a superb choice as a required summer read by Queens University.

Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (Paperback)

By Timothy B. Tyson
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780807849231
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Published: University of North Carolina Press, 2/2001
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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.

Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy (Paperback)

By David S. Cecelski, Timothy B. Tyson, John Hope Franklin
$31.95
ISBN-13: 9780807847558
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Published: University of North Carolina Press, 11/1998
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Published on the centennial of the Wilmington race riot,  DEMOCRACY BETRAYED draws together the best new scholarship on the events of 1898 and their aftermath. Contributors to this important book hope to draw public attention to the tragedy, to honor its victims, and to bring a clear and timely historical voice to the debate over its legacy.