Blood done sign my name : a true story /
From the Publisher: "Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger." Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by a playmate, heralded a firestorm that would forever transform the tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina. On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Three Rivers Press, Broadway Books
©2004.
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| Edition: | 1st pbk. ed. |
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| Online Access: | View Joel Shoemaker giftplate |
Table of Contents:
- 1: Baptism
- 2: Original sins
- 3: Too close not to touch
- 4: Miss Amy's witness
- 5: King Jesus and Dr King
- 6: Death of Henry Morrow
- 7: Drinkin' that freedom wine
- 8: Our "other South"
- 9: Cash register at the pool hall
- 10: Perry Mason in the shoeshine parlor
- 11: We all have our own stories
- 12: Go back to the last place where you knew who you were
- Epilogue: Blood done sign my name
- Author's note
- Notes on sources
- Acknowledgments.