American christianity and southern culture at the duke divinity school, and an adjunct professor of american studies at unc chapel hill. You can tell tim is a very inclusive guy, hes got an appointment at duke and unc. We are going to talk best well tonight. He is the author of blood done sign my name which was nominated for the book award. He also serves on the executive board for the North Carolina naacp. Tim can tell you more about this book than i can. I just want to say, he does a marvelous job of putting amit hills murder and lynching into a context of American History. His earlier book is about a similar incident that happened 15 years later in oxford North Carolina about 25 miles from here and i learned just a few years ago about another similar incident that happened three blocks from here at the intersection of ninth street where during the war in 1944, a black soldier in uniform from philadelphia would not move to the back of the bus and when he got off the bus, the bus driv