Timothy Tyson, Lecturing Fellow in the Center for Documentary Studies

Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book, The Blood of Emmett Till, won the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award; made the "long list" of ten books for the 2017 National Book Award, and was named Best Book of 2017 by both the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution named it Best Southern Book of 2017.  Vann R. Newkirk of The Atlantic writes that "The Blood of Emmett Till" manages to turn history into prophecy and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history—learn from it."  Tyson is also the author of Blood Done Sign My Name, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, winner of the Southern Book Award for Nonfiction and the Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Tyson was executive producer of Mike Wiley's 2008 play and writer-consultant for Jeb Stuart's 2010 feature film adaptation by that title.  His 1999 book, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power, won the James Rawley Prize for best book on race and the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize for best first book in U.S. History from the Organization of American Historians (OAH); it was also the basis for Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power, which the OAH awarded the 2006 Eric Barnou Prize for best historical film. He is co-editor with David Cecelski of Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy, which won the 1998 Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Meyers Center for Human Rights in North America and author of Ghosts of 1898: Wilmington's Race Riot and the Rise of White Supremacy, which won 2007 Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.

He serves on the executive board of the North Carolina NAACP, Repairers of the Breach, and the UNC Center for Civil Rights.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	1317 W. Pettigrew St., Durham, NC 27705
Office Phone:	+1 919 660 3663
Email Address:
Web Pages:	https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4162533 https://documentarystudies.duke.edu/people/tim-tyson

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• DOCST 326.01, THE SOUTH IN BLACK AND WHITE Synopsis

  Bridges 007, Tu 06:15 PM-08:45 PM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 230.01, HISTORY 358.01, RIGHTS 326.01)

• DOCST 350S.01, DOCUMENTING BLACK EXPERIENCES Synopsis

  Bridges 001, W 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 225S.01, CULANTH 262S.01, PUBPOL 387S.01, RIGHTS 350S.01)

• DOCST 726.01, THE SOUTH IN BLACK AND WHITE Synopsis

  Bridges 007, Tu 06:15 PM-08:45 PM

• DOCST 751S.01, DOCUMENTING BLACK EXPERIENCES Synopsis

  Bridges 001, W 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

• DOCST 350S.01, DOCUMENTING BLACK EXPERIENCES Synopsis

  Bridges 001, Tu 11:45 AM-02:15 PM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 225S.01, CULANTH 262S.01, PUBPOL 387S.01, RIGHTS 350S.01)

• DOCST 751S.01, DOCUMENTING BLACK EXPERIENCES Synopsis

  Bridges 001, Tu 11:45 AM-02:15 PM

Education:

Ph.D.

Duke University

1994

Specialties:

Race and Ethnicity

Keywords:

Civil Rights • Race Relations