Timothy B. Tyson, Author . Crown $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-609-61058-9
In this outstanding personal history, Tyson, a professor of African-American studies who's white, unflinchingly examines the civil rights struggle in the South. The book focuses on the murder of a young black man, Henry Marrow, in 1970, a...
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Timothy B. Tyson, Author University of North Carolina Press $44.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-8078-2502-0
To some, the civil rights radical Robert Williams's philosophy of armed self-defense was the very antithesis of Martin Luther King's nonviolent resistance. However, each man represented a wing of the growing civil rights movement, and both grasped...
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Timothy B. Tyson. Simon & Schuster, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4767-1484-4
With rare immediacy, Tyson (Blood Done Sign My Name) revisits the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till in Mississippi and the acquittal of those responsible in a gripping account of the cultural milieu of a racist environment. The work is informed by the...
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Timothy B. Tyson, read by Rhett S. Price. Dreamscape Media, unabridged, 8 CDs., 9.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-5200-6500-7
Reader Price has a deep, alluring voice reminiscent of old radio announcers. He brings an authentic-sounding Southern accent to the reading of historian Tyson’s latest books,which revisits the 1955 murder of Emmett Till and the legacy of his tragic...
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