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The battle for civil rights was not won in the sixties - certainly not in many parts of the country. It never touched Oxford, North Carolina, where young Tim Tyson was growing up. In 1970, when a black man was killed in the town square by a Klansman and his sons, and an all-white jury acquitted the murderers, both blacks and whites were swept into a firestorm. Amid the violence and fear that enveloped the town, Tim's father attempted to bring the two sides together, only to be reviled as a traitor to both sides. Tim - now a professor of African-American studies at the University of Wisconsin - has written a memoir of that turbulent summer, and has gone back, thirty years later, to find a remnant of scorched justice.

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Admirable and unexpected...a riveting story that will have his readers weeping with both laughter and sorrow. -- Chicago Tribune <br><br> Blood Done Sign My Name is a most important book and one of the most powerful meditations on race in America that I have ever read. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer <br><br> Pulses with vital paradox . . . It's a detached dissertation, a damning dark-night-of-the-white-soul, and a ripping yarn, all united by Tyson's powerful voice, a brainy, booming Bubba profundo. -- Entertainment Weekly <br><br> If you want to read only one book to understand the uniquely American struggle for racial equality and the swirls of emotion around it, this is it. -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel <br><br> Engaging and frequently stunning. -- San Diego Union-Tribune <br><br><br> From the Trade Paperback edition.

Admirable and unexpected...a riveting story that will have his readers weeping with both laughter and sorrow. -- Chicago Tribune <br> Blood Done Sign My Name is a most important book and one of the most powerful meditations on race in America that I have ever read. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer <br> Pulses with vital paradox . . . It's a detached dissertation, a damning dark-night-of-the-white-soul, and a ripping yarn, all united by Tyson's powerful voice, a brainy, booming Bubba profundo. -- Entertainment Weekly <br> If you want to read only one book to understand the uniquely American struggle for racial equality and the swirls of emotion around it, this is it. -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel <br> Engaging and frequently stunning. -- San Diego Union-Tribune <p> From the Trade Paperback edition.

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