Timothy thyssen, also known as, tim tyson, tim is the Senior Research scholar at the center for documentary studies at duke, visiting professor of american christianity in southern culture at the Duke Divinity School and an adjunct professor of american studies at unc chapel hill. So you can tell it is a very inclusive guy. He has an appointment at duke and you and see. Were not, talk basketball tonight. He is the author of which is a finalist for the National Book award. In a book called radio free dick see. Tim also serves on the executive board of the North Carolina naacp. Tim can tell you more about this book than i can. I just want to say that he does a marvelous job of putting emmett tills murder and lynching into a context of American History. His earlier books and is about a similar incident that happened 15 years later North Carolina law 25 miles from here. I learned a few years ago about another similar incident that happened three blocks from here. At the intersection of clu
Carolyn Bryant Donham's unpublished memoir represents the first time the woman at the center of Emmett Till's lynching has spoken openly about the case.
This year marks nearly seven decades since the 14-year-old boy from the South Side was killed in Mississippi. Here’s a look at how the Sun-Times covered his death in 1955, including Mamie Till Bradley’s decision to show the world the brutality he endured at the hands of white supremacists.