Timothy B. Tyson

Draws on firsthand testimonies and recovered court transcripts to present a scholarly account of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and its role in launching the civil rights movement.

The Blood of Emmett Till

The author returns to his hometown of Oxford, North Carolina, to make sense of the thirty-year-old murder of a black man by a Klansman, and the Klansman's subsequent acquittal by an all-white jury.

A True Story

Blood Done Sign My Name

"The story of Robert F. Williams shows that independent black politics, black cultural pride, and "armed self-reliance" operated in tension and in tandem with legal efforts and nonviolent protests.Radio Free Dixie reveals that both the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement, often portrayed in clashing terms, grew out of the same soil, confronted the same predicaments, and reflected the same quest for African American freedom."

Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power

Radio Free Dixie

Sequestrado, torturado e morto. Em 1955, esse foi o "destino" de um garoto de 14 anos de Chicago, chamado Emmett Till. Seu linchamento até hoje é considerado um dos crimes mais extremos dos Estados Unidos. No best-seller do New York Times O SANGUE DE EMMETT TILL, Timothy B. Tyson, historiador da Universidade Duke, coloca o crime em seu contexto cultural e histórico mais amplo, recontando a história deste terrível assassinato e suas consequências ainda ressonantes. Em agosto de 1955, o garoto supostamente flertou e agarrou pela cintura Carolyn Bryant, uma mulher branca que trabalhava como caixa em um mercado local. Carolyn comunicou seu marido Roy Bryant e J. W. Milam, meio-irmão de seu marido, que mais tarde sequestraram, espancaram e mataram o garoto. O corpo mutilado do jovem foi encontrado num rio três dias depois. O linchamento de Emmett Till, em 1955, ainda hoje é considerado o crime de ódio mais notório da história norte-americana. Milhares de pessoas acompanharam seu funeral, e fotografias de seu rosto desfigurado percorreram o mundo, geraram protestos e ajudaram a galvanizar o movimento pelos direitos civis.

O sangue de Emmett Till

David S. Cecelski

At the close of the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party in North Carolina engineered a white supremacy revolution. Frustrated by decades of African American self-assertion and threatened by an interracial coalition advocating democratic reforms, white conservatives used violence, demagoguery, and fraud to seize political power and disenfranchise black citizens. The most notorious episode of the campaign was the Wilmington "race riot" of 1898, which claimed the lives of many black residents and rolled back decades of progress for African Americans in the state. Published on the centennial of the Wilmington race riot, Democracy Betrayed draws together the best new scholarship on the events of 1898 and their aftermath. Contributors to this important book hope to draw public attention to the tragedy, to honor its victims, and to bring a clear and timely historical voice to the debate over its legacy. The contributors are David S. Cecelski, William H. Chafe, Laura F. Edwards, Raymond Gavins, Glenda E. Gilmore, John Haley, Michael Honey, Stephen Kantrowitz, H. Leon Prather Sr., Timothy B. Tyson, LeeAnn Whites, and Richard Yarborough.

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