for those of you who don't know timothy thyssen, also known as, tim tyson, tim is a senior research scholar attack many strategies that do, visiting professor of christianity and culture at th divinity school ad adjunct professor of american studies at unc chapel hill. so you can tell tim is a very inclusive guy, he has an appointment at duke and at unc. we will not talk basketball tonight. he is the author of a finalist for the national book award. and a book called brady a free dixie. 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 put it and it kills murder and lynching into a context of american history. tim's earlier book, blood done sign my name is about a similar incident that happened 15 years later in oxford, north carolina about 25 miles from here. i learned just a few years ago about another similar incident that happened three blocks from here, at the intersection by ninth street where black during the war 1944 a black such in soldier in uniform would not move