Blood Done Sign My Name Analysis

Kevin Aguirre Rodriguez
Blood Done Sign My Name - Book Review
HIS 132 – American Histories II – Section 0B
A. Marco
April 1, 2015

The constant struggle for social reform and the inequality faced by many African Americans shows their willingness to be acknowledged, the start of the Civil Rights Movement commenced with the freedom granted to them by the Reconstruction Amendments. The prospect of knowledge and willingness sprung a powerful flow of African Americans who wanted to be recognized as human beings and as equals to the white population. In Blood Done Sign My Name, the character Timothy Tyson recollects his past life in Oxford North Carolina. The book begins with the killing of Henry Marrow; the town is spun into chaos and Tyson’s family is forced out of the city by threats from the Ku Klux Klan. The story is confusing but it gives a broader aspect of the Civil Rights Movement, by giving actual accounts from people both from the past and present when he interviews them. The story gives accounts from the end of World

Speculations about the mixing of races and the change in society was a major fear by prevalent white Americans; this fear was mostly shared by the older generation of individuals who did not want to see the culture they had lived in for so long dissipate. The generation of those who had feared mixing of races had begun to fall victim to a new generation that accepted this change much more willingly. The only way to prevent the new generations from mixing was to segregate schools and public areas such as parks, restaurants, and buses. The Ku Klux Klan would also intimidate those individuals who would not succumb to their ways of society and cultural views, burning crosses in people’s yards sending threatening messages, bombing homes, and destroying