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Feb 23, 2016KMJ_ rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Blood Done Signed My Name is both a historical account and a memoir. Timothy Tyson describes his memories of being an 11 year old in Oxford, NC the night Dickie Marrow is murdered in the street. The murder leads to riots, protest marches, and a boycott. The three people responsible for the murder are acquitted. Years later, Tyson decides to go back to Oxford to write about the murder of Dickie Marrow and its aftermath. He traces his own family’s history and how it coincided with the history of the South. He also discusses how things have and haven’t changed in North Carolina since the events of 1970.