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Timothy B. Tyson

Historian Timothy B. Tyson is a visiting professor of American Christianity and Southern culture at Duke Divinity School and senior scholar of documentary studies at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies. He is the author of “Blood Done Sign My Name,” which examines a racially motivated murder in Oxford, N.C., and the following social upheaval in the early 1970s.

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