Center for Documentary Studies senior research scholar Timothy B. Tyson is the author of The Blood of Emmett Till; Blood Done Sign My Name, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Southern Book Award for Nonfiction; and Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power, winner of the James Rawley Prize and the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize. He serves on the executive board of the North Carolina NAACP and the UNC Center for Civil Rights.
An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.
From the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University: To introduce our first story for The By and By, a writing-and-audio narrative around the new book The Blood of Emmett Till, we asked its author, Timothy B. Tyson, to reflect on the overwhelming response to the book since its release, why the story of Emmett Till continues to resonate so profoundly.