21 Facts About Timothy Tyson

Timothy B Tyson was born on 1959 and is an American writer and historian who specializes in the issues of culture, religion, and race associated with the Civil Rights Movement.

Timothy Tyson is a senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and an adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina.

Timothy Tyson's books have won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, the James A Rawley Prize, the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and the Southern Book Award.

In 2017, Tyson published The Blood of Emmett Till, which won the Robert F Kennedy Book Award and was longlisted for the National Book Award, but which was later subject to controversy regarding a reported confession made by Till's accuser Carolyn Bryant to Tyson which could not be substantiated.

Timothy Tyson's parents are Vernon Tyson, a Methodist minister, and Martha Tyson, a school teacher.

Timothy Tyson attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Emory University in 1987.

Timothy Tyson received his PhD in history from Duke University in 1994.

Timothy Tyson began his teaching career at Duke University in 1994 while finishing his doctorate.

Timothy Tyson currently serves as Senior Research Scholar at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, with secondary appointments at the Duke Divinity School and the Department of History.

At the Divinity School, Timothy Tyson teaches about race, religion and civil rights in the South.

Timothy Tyson has a position in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In 2007, Timothy Tyson taught an experimental course entitled "The South in Black and White," which met at the Hayti Heritage Center in downtown Durham, for students at Duke, North Carolina Central University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Timothy Tyson serves on the executive board of the North Carolina NAACP and the UNC Center for Civil Rights.

In 2006, Timothy Tyson wrote a 16-page article on the events in Wilmington for the Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh News and Observer.

In 1998, Tyson published an article, "Robert F Williams, 'Black Power,' and the Roots of the Black Freedom Struggle", in the Journal of American History about civil rights leader Robert F Williams's Radio Free Dixie program.

Negroes with Guns, for which Timothy Tyson served as lead consultant, won the Erick Barnouw Award for best historical film from the Organization of American Historians.

Timothy Tyson authored Blood Done Sign My Name, published by Crown in 2004, a memoir and history of the killing by whites of Henry Marrow, a black Army veteran, in Oxford, North Carolina in 1970.

Timothy Tyson drew from research that he did in the 1990s while he completed his master's thesis.

Timothy Tyson provided multiple explanations for why the comment wasn't recorded, including that the recorder wasn't working while Bryant made the comment, that the recording was lost, or that the tape recorder wasn't on.

Timothy Tyson was arrested on June 15,2010 by Raleigh police on charges of second-degree trespassing.

Timothy Tyson argued that this would will lead to de facto segregation because of residential patterns.