Professor’s Book “Blood Done Sign My Name” Adapted for Film
See video of Professor Timothy Tyson describing the filming of his award-winning book
June 27, 2008
“Blood Done Sign My Name,” the award-winning book by Timothy Tyson, Visiting Professor of American Christianity and Southern Culture, is being made into a movie this summer in and around Charlotte, N.C.
The story, published in 2004, examines a racially-motivated murder in Oxford, N.C. and the following social upheaval in the early 1970s.
The book has won numerous honors, including the Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion, the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, the 2004 Christopher Award and the North Carolinian Award.
The film will include a guest appearance by one of Tyson’s heroes, John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Emeritus Professor of History at Duke University and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.