Summary Of Blood Done Sign My Name

During the mid-1900s, white and black communities across the southern states had disputes based on racial segregation within their society. The phrase “separate but equal” was still commonly practiced in some southern communities, in which African Americans still faced mistreatments and harsh discriminations. Timothy B. Tyson, a professor of Afro-American Studies, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story is a memoir of his recognition of his early childhood experiences and other witness’s reports of the racial discrimination, segregation, and injustice death of an African American in Oxford, North Carolina. In the memoir, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story, Timothy Tyson narrates about the racial discrimination he experienced in Oxford, North

The incident later provoked an uproar of violence and hatred within the community, causing boycotts and marches. Tyson describes the murder and the aftermath through multiple perspectives who witness the event. Including through his own experience, as a young 10-year-old, with his anti-segregated Methodist minister father, who strove to lead his people to overcome prejudices. By interweaving the history of race relations, Tyson brings the shame of the country’s history to vivid life. “The civil rights movement knocked down the formal and legal barriers to equal citizenship, but failed to give most African Americans real power in this society” (Tyson, 318). Through the account of the murder of Henry Marrow, raised an awareness and hatred due to segregation and discrimination of race that caused a civil rights

was a civil rights leader who influenced the black community to peacefully protest for their rights and equality. On July 2, 1964, the Civil Rights Act was signed and passed by President Lyndon Johnson. The act was first proposed by deceased former president John F. Kennedy, then President Johnson continued it. This act gave African- American basic rights, banning all forms of racial segregation and racism in the United States. It also forbids the discrimination in schools and in federal programs. This act further led on to the Voting Rights Acts of 1965 and Fair Housing Act. Although this act was passed, discrimination and racism still followed along, and blacks were still not treated with respect and equality. On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. died in Memphis, Tennessee, after being shot and assassinated by James Earl Ray. This joined black communities and united them than ever before. “Though the struggle against racism would continue, legal segregation had been brought to its knees in the United States” (History.com