Timothy Tyson
Timothy B. Tyson (born 1959) is an American writer and historian from North Carolina who specializes in the issues of culture, religion and race associated with the civil rights movement of the twentieth century. He has joint appointments at Duke University and the University of North Carolina. He has won numerous teaching awards, as well as recognition for creative and experimental courses, including one that took students on a tour of sites of the civil rights events in the South. His books have won the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize, James A. Rawley Prize, the Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and the Southern Book Award. In addition, two have been adapted as films, and one as a play.
Read more about Timothy Tyson: Early Life and Education, Teaching Career, Blood Done Sign My Name, Work On Robert F. Williams, Work On Wilmington Race Riot, Wake County School Board Protest
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