BACK TO THE SOURCE:
THE RESEARCH BEHIND TIMOTHY TYSON'S BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME

Thursday September 8th, 5 – 7 p.m.
Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

A PANEL DISCUSSION FEATURING:

• Timothy B. Tyson
  Author
• Reverend Vernon Tyson
  Author's father
• Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
  Director, Southern Oral History
  Program
• Eddie McCoy
  Oral historian of Oxford, N.C.

“My search for the meaning of the troubles in Oxford launched me toward a life of learning ... out of my little boy’s vision of my family’s well-lighted place in the world and into the shadows where histories and memories and hopes abide.”

Join Timothy B. Tyson as he revisits his journey into the shadows of southern history and memory—the journey that led to his remarkable excavation of a small Piedmont town's troubled racial past. Tyson and his fellow panelists will offer new insights into the process of researching his award-winning book, and the pleasures and possibilities of research in other aspects of the southern past.

This event is organized by UNC’s Southern Archival Sources Graduate Advisory Board and sponsored by UNC's Southern Historical Collection, with support from the Friends of the Library and the Center for the Study of the American South.