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In the memoir, Blood Done Sign My Name, the author, Timothy Tyson, writes of an experience like no other. First the writer gives an overview of what the book is about and how it is a significant piece of historical literature. Second, the reader will be able to identify the thoughts and opinions of the writer concerning the interpretation of this autobiography. Then, the paper will speak on historical prominent locations of the KKK in North Carolina. Next, the reader will be able to identify KKK chapters within North Carolina throughout the years and current day chapters. Lastly, this paper will address one of the KKK’s most significant moments in North Carolina history. Tyson starts his book by telling the events that transpired one day when …show more content…

The murder of Henry Marrow in 1970 was not one of those events. Tyson knew of the racism and the control the KKK had over his town. This book tells of the story of this murder’s impact on a small town in North Carolina known as Oxford, North Carolina. Blood Done Sign My Name is an autobiography that gives insight on how impactful racism was in Southern small towns during the 1960s and 1970s. Even though this book was being told through the eyes of someone experiencing these events, the story is not told through all perspectives of what was transpiring in this …show more content…

These chapters are found in areas in such as Lenoir, Roanoke Rapids, Charlotte, and Durham. According to historians, the KKK chapters in North Carolina did not initiate the concept of burning crosses but it was a North Carolinian author (Steelman). The act of burning the cross was something brought into the public eye through the use of literature. Many of major chapters were not located in North Carolina but conflict with the Klan rose within the state. When the motion picture, Bella Donna, was released places such as Hickory, North Carolina were restricted from showing this anti-Klan film(Rice). The KKK is an influential part of society that is responsible for hate crimes throughout

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In the book Blood Done Sign My Name Timothy B. Tyson explains a time period where people didn’t accept African-Americans as equal members to society. Tyson explains how inequality effected many African-Americans lives during this time. Tyson grew up in Oxford, North Carolina where he was the son of a Methodist Preacher who believed that everyone was equal. Tyson’s father faced many consequences for believing that everyone was equal, at one of his sermon’s he invited a very well know African American speaker, this raised a lot of questions about what Tim’s fathers beliefs were and if they were acceptable. Tim’s father was a very well respected man from African Americans and whites he made sure to show up to the funeral of Henry Marrow where he was one of the only white people.

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To many, the 1970’s was a time of large hair and an infatuation of disco music, but underneath all the bold, vibrant colors were a variety of social and political movements with the same objective, equality. Blood Done Signed My Name: A True Story by Timothy B. Tyson is mostly set in that time. In his memoir, he tells a story about a young man, Henry Marrow, getting brutally beaten and murdered and the after effect (Tyson). Tyson interviews many people from his past on the Marrow incident and shares with the reader their understanding of the situation in addition to his own. As well as the incident, he asks about their view on how the town and its people work and interact with each other, especially during the Civil Rights Movements (Tyson).

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The thirteenth amendment was passed in 1865, in the aftermath of the Civil War, and is considered the beginning of reconstruction. This amendment allowed for doors to open for American citizens and former slaves. An example of one of these former slaves is Joseph Farley, who was born in 1843 in Virginia. He later ran away to join the Union Army. Farley, like other former African-American slaves, felt the wrath of angry ex-Confederate citizens in many ways than one.

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Before we begin to dive into the crimes that occurred in the book, Blood Done Signed My Name, we must first ask the question, what is crime? According to Michael Lynch, crime can be defined as “exactly what the law states” (Lynch 2015). Like anything else a strict definition like this can have both positive and negatives associated with it. With using such a strict definition of crime it allows people to have no room to try and get around it. If we use a loose interpretation then it allows for people to use said definition on more of a case by case period.

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The story of forsyth georgia is a very long and very racist one. The novel Blood At The Root by Patrick Phillips captures this troubling 100 year period of American history perfectly. While this novel is only a historical recollection of events from someone who lived in Forsyth, the novel has a much larger effect on the reader. The novel tries to give the reader an idea of how blacks were discriminated against, and how they were virtually powerless to fight it. The novel also illustrates the effect of white victimization in areas like forsyth.

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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

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The Ku Klux Klan first emerged in Pulaski, Tennessee following the Civil War. As we know today, the mere mention of the Klan triggers fear as the KKK is known for its various tactics of violence that came in the form if lynchings, murders, and mutilations. Following their emergence, the KKK were quickly symbolized and portrayed as the protectors of the South, following the defeat of the Southern states in the Civil War and the beginning of the period of Reconstruction by the federal government (Gurr, 1989, p. 132). During the 1920s, the KKK achieved its greatest political success and growth outside of the South. During this period, the membership of the Klan heavily expanded to the states of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Oregon, to which the KKK obtained two to two and one-half million members at its apex.

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