Blood Done Sign My Name By Timothy Tyson Analysis

The memoir by Timothy B. Tyson; Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story, portrays an event that impacted ten year old Timothy Tyson in Oxford, North Carolina. During the 1970’s the Civil Rights Movement was in action and along with it came a lot of disagreements with civilians to an extent that a common vigilante group was created; The Ku Klux Klan. Although the Ku Klux Klan became nationwide, it was widely accepted more in North Carolina deterring the African American race in the memoir. In the memoir Blood Done Sign My Name, Timothy Tyson, son of a Methodist minister Vernon Tyson and his mom Martha Bouie Tyson, a teacher, describes how the traumatic event of the murder of African American Veteran Henry Marrow affected the town of Oxford, North Carolina. Timothy Tyson was not raised to look at racial and ethnic differences. While still at a young age Timothy Tyson remembers how his friend Gerald Teel told him that his dad, Robert Teel and brother Roger killed an African American. Timothy Tyson recalls the broken judicial system and how public events were segregated. With the death and injustice of Marrow the African American race felt in danger by the white race whom felt superior. With the Civil Rights Movement taking place, vigilante groups like the Ku Klux Klan …show more content…
The Granville County Klan responded by cross burning on the lawn of Winbornes home (Tyson, 54). Also, In Robeson County, Reverend James Cole desired to continue his hatred actions towards African Americans and Lumbee Indians. Cole claimed that an Indian women was having an affair with a white man, the Klan responded to that by cross burning in her yard as a warning to not have affairs with white men (Tyson, 56). Just like the Klan attacked African Americas, they would also punish the women who would break the social