Work On Wilmington Race Riot
Tyson's first book, Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy (1998), was co-edited with David S. Cecelski. Its publication marked the centennial of the massacre and coup d'état in Wilmington. It won the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America.
In 2006, Tyson wrote a special section on the events in Wilmington for the Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh News and Observer. This 16-page special section was widely distributed. Soon afterward, the North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation to require the teaching of the white supremacy campaigns and the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 in public schools. "Ghosts of 1898" won an Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
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