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A 1970 Race Murder in North Carolina is Recalled

Tim Tyson was 10 years old when a black man was murdered in his hometown for allegedly making a remark to a white man's wife. The accused killers were acquitted by an all-white jury. Tyson, now a professor of Afro-American studies, makes sense of the murder in his new book.
Isthmus  |  Ellen Meany  |  09-07-2004  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

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