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Timothy B. Tyson

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Gird Up, Get Up, and Grow Up

On the origin and growth of the Moral Mondays movement.

by Timothy B. Tyson, William J. Barber II via Southern Cultures on September 1, 2019

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Left, a young Emmett Till. Right, Carolyn Bryant with her two young sons at Till's murder trial, 1955.

How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case

The woman whose testimony was central to the infamous case admits feeling 'tender sorrow.'

by Sheila Weller via Vanity Fair on January 26, 2017

Maligned in Black and White

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?

by Mark I. Pinsky via Poynter on May 8, 2019

The Justice Department Is Reinvestigating the 1955 Slaying of Emmett Till

His brutal killing shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement.

by Associated Press via TIME on July 12, 2018

Collage of people involved in and aspects of Emmett Till's murder.

Masculinity and the Murder of Emmett Till

While working on the Smithsonian's Till exhibit, I learned how ideas about masculinity factored into the boy's murder.

by James M. Scott via Scalawag on May 19, 2026

Artistic rendering of a sheet of newspaper with people crossed out, flowing above people working menial jobs whose heads are also crossed out, working next to signs that read "Sorry."

On Atonement

News outlets have apologized for past racism. That should only be the start.

by Alexandria Neason via Columbia Journalism Review on January 28, 2021

An American Pogrom

Uncovering the truth about the 1898 massacre of black voters in Wilmington, North Carolina.

by David W. Blight via New York Review of Books on October 30, 2020

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