Blood Done Sign My Name
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Blood Done Sign My Name (2004) is a historical memoir written by Timothy B. Tyson. He explores the 1970 murder of Henry D. Marrow, a black man in Tyson's then hometown of Oxford, North Carolina. The murder is described as the result of the complicated collision of the Black Power movement and the white backlash against public school integration and other changes brought by the civil rights movement.
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Author | Timothy Tyson |
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Language | English |
Genre | Autobiography; historical nonfiction |
Publisher | Crown |
Publication date | May 18, 2004 |
Media type | Print (hardcover & paperback) |
Pages | 368 |
ISBN | 0-609-61058-9 (hardcover) |
OCLC | 53019249 |
975.6/535/00496073 22 | |
LC Class | F264.O95 T97 2004 |
Since 2004, the book has sold 160,000 copies. It has earned several awards: the Grawemeyer Award in Religion from the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, which had a $200,000 prize, the Southern Book Award for Nonfiction from the Southern Book Critics Circle, the Christopher Award, and the North Caroliniana Book Award from the North Caroliniana Society. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill selected the book for its 2005 summer reading program.[1]
The book was adapted as a movie by the same name, released in 2010. Entertainment Weekly ranked it on a "must see" list.