Subject: Review: Blood Done Sign My Name
From:
Janie
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 02:07 PM
"Blood Done Sign My Name" Nonfiction by Timothy B. Tyson.
This book is this year's required summer reading for incoming UNC-Chapel Hill freshmen. Timothy Tyson was a young white boy living in Oxford NC when a black man was murdered there in 1970. The murder and the resulting events set him on a life-long journey of exploration of racism, the civil rights movement and the differences in experience and perception between southern blacks and southern whites, as well as generational differences between the civil rights leaders of the 50's and 60's vs. the more militant leaders of the 70's.
This is an important book that rather thoroughly explores both sides of the "color line." If you have any interest in these things, or even if you don't, read it.
Janie
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