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Blood Done Sign My Name

Blood Done Sign My Name. Timothy B. Tyson. Quart. 1 Section 1. Racism in the United states is still a big problem despite slavery laws being abolished a long time before A black man (later to be recognized as a Vietnam veteran) was shot and killed in Oxford, North Carolina

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Blood Done Sign My Name

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  1. Blood Done Sign My Name Timothy B. Tyson

  2. Quart. 1 Section 1 • Racism in the United states is still a big problem despite slavery laws being abolished a long time before • A black man (later to be recognized as a Vietnam veteran) was shot and killed in Oxford, North Carolina • Timothy Tyson was a young boy when this happened. The book explore his experience with racial discrimination (and this incident).

  3. Quart. 1 Section 1 • Upon being threatened by the KluKlux Klan, nobody wanted to confront the perpetrators. • This infuriated blacks causing riots and rampage. (breaking of shops, houses setting fire to various “white” locales etc.) • The mayor, despite being overwhelmed did nothing about the whole ordeal.

  4. Quart 1 Section 2 • Timothy was part of a religious family. His father was a minister who often found it hard not to preach about equality, and his mother was a poised and very well educated woman. She also believed in helping blacks (not enough to make them better than her though.) • Tyson expresses that he and his family never felt “from the south” as it was understood to be.

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