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100 1 $aTyson, Timothy B.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98022143
245 10 $aBlood done sign my name :$ba true story /$cTimothy B. Tyson.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bCrown Publishers,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $avii, 355 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 326-344).
520 1 $a"On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a 23-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel, a rough man with a criminal record and ties to the Ku Klux Klan, and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased Marrow, beat him unmercifully, and killed him in public as he pleaded for his life. In the words of a local prosecutor: "They shot him like you or I would kill a snake."" "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, led by 22-year-old Ben Chavis, a future president of the NAACP. As mass protests crowded the town square, a cluster of returning Vietnam veterans organized what one termed a "military operation." While lawyers battled in the courthouse that summer in a drama that one termed "a Perry Mason kind of thing," the Ku Klux Klan raged in the shadows and black veterans torched the town's tobacco warehouses." "With large sections of the town in flames, Tim Tyson's father, the pastor of Oxford's all-white Methodist church, pressed his congregation to widen their vision of humanity and pushed the town to come to terms with its bloody racial history. In the end, however, the Tyson family was forced to move away." "Years later, historian Tim Tyson returned to Oxford to ask Robert Teel why he and his sons had killed Henry Marrow. "That nigger committed suicide, coming in here wanting to four-letter-word my daughter-in-law," Ted explained." "The black radicals who burned much of Oxford also told Tim their stories. "It was like we had a cash register up there at the pool hall, just ringing up how much money we done cost these white people," one of them explained. "We knew if we cost 'em enough goddamn money they was gonna start changing some things.""--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aOxford (N.C.)$xRace relations.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCrimes against$zNorth Carolina$zOxford$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMurder$zNorth Carolina$zOxford$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aTrials (Murder)$zNorth Carolina$zOxford.
650 0 $aRiots$zNorth Carolina$zOxford$xHistory$y20th century.
600 10 $aTyson, Timothy B.$xChildhood and youth.
650 0 $aWhite people$zNorth Carolina$zOxford$vBiography.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zNorth Carolina$zOxford$vBiography.
651 0 $aOxford (N.C.)$vBiography.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip048/2003019804.html
852 00 $bglx$hF264.O95$iT97 2004