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  1. Timothy B. Tyson _ Blood Done Sign My Name: A

    South where I grew up. In large measure, this reflected a racial and gender caste system that denied most other opportunities to African American women. That system was designed to ensure a ready supply of cheap black labor, especially for the Southern ruling classes that emerged out of slavery's old planter class. But the privilege of exploiting black labor extended even to fairly lowly whites; textile mill hands and poor farmers, for example, frequently employed their black
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  2. Timothy B. Tyson _ Blood Done Sign My Name: A

    He held his ground like a sweet gum stump trying hard to live in a spirit of love and action, not anger and reaction
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  3. Timothy B. Tyson _ Blood Done Sign My Name: A

    A local white bootlegger, idling under the store awning, accosted Major Stem. "Why'd you call that damned nigger woman 'Mrs. Shaw'?" he demanded. In those days, white Southerners did not use courtesy titles for their black neighbors. While it was permissible to call a favored black man "Uncle" or "Professor"-a mixture of affection and mockery-he must never hear the words "mister" or "sir." Black women were "girls" until they were old enough to be called "auntie," but they could never hear a white person, regardless of age, address them as "Mrs." or "Miss" or "Ma'am." But Major Stem made his own rules.
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  4. Timothy B. Tyson _ Blood Done Sign My Name: A

    That we not become prejudiced against those are prejudiced, or whose prejudices. May no be our own.
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  5. Timothy B. Tyson _ Blood Done Sign My Name: A

    We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here. Our failure to confront the historical truth about how African Americans finally won their freedom presents a major obstacle to genuine racial reconciliation.
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  6. Timothy B. Tyson _ Blood Done Sign My Name: A

    What others might dismiss as the vagaries of fate, my father interpreted as dancing lessons from the Divine.
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  7. Timothy B. Tyson _ Blood Done Sign My Name: A

    The world had kenneled a vicious lie in my brain…
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  8. Timothy B. Tyson _ Blood Done Sign My Name: A

    You read yourself full, you pray yourself hot, and then you turn yourself loose.
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  9. Timothy B. Tyson _ Blood Done Sign My Name: A

    The federal government was entirely complicit. When President Roosevelt passed the Social Security Act of 1935, Southern conservatives and their Northern Republican allies forced the New Deal legislation to exclude domestic workers and farmworkers from all of its employment provisions. That shielded
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  10. Timothy B. Tyson _ Blood Done Sign My Name: A

    When we said we were going to do something "directly," which is pronounced "dreckly," we meant that we were going to get to it sooner or later, one of these days, maybe never, and please don't ask again."
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  11. Timothy B. Tyson _ Blood Done Sign My Name: A

    We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.
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  12. Timothy B. Tyson _ Blood Done Sign My Name: A

    Racism was an important moral issue, one that the church needed to confront. Putting a black man in a position of honor and authority was a good thing, and if there was controversy over it, that was not a bad thing thing, either. People needed to work through these things, and not just in the abstract.
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