Tim Tyson @ 57th St Books

Timothy Tyson reads from Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story, Tuesday, June 22nd at 7 pm at 57th Street Books.

"In his chilling and perceptive new book, award-winning African-American studies professor Tim Tyson combines memoir and history to tell the story of a murder that shook a small Southern town. In 1970, when Tyson was 10 years old, his hometown of Oxford, NC exploded after a white businessman murdered a young black man in cold blood. The town's African-American residents poured into the streets in protest, and black veterans torched area tobacco warehouses, while the Ku Klux Klan plotted violence. Tyson skillfully weaves Oxford's story into the larger history of the civil rights movement, and explores the real costs of our country's racial divide."