Timothy B. Tyson Quote
Thurgood Marshall arranged a meeting with agents of the New York office of the FBI in connection with his efforts to combat communist attempts to infiltrate the NAACP, as the FBI put it. The future U.S. Supreme Court justice informed them that Robert Williams had been suspended from the NAACP due to his actions in connection with the defense of two Negro children who were sent to a North Carolina Training School for allowing white girls to kiss them. Williams should be investigated, Marshall allegedly told them, because he will seek to arouse the people in the North Carolina area to take action which could become violent and cause racial unrest and tension. Marshall was, the FBI report stated, afraid of people agitating on such matters in the South since race tension can be easily aroused, especially during the summer months.
Thurgood Marshall arranged a meeting with agents of the New York office of the FBI in connection with his efforts to combat communist attempts to infiltrate the NAACP, as the FBI put it. The future U.S. Supreme Court justice informed them that Robert Williams had been suspended from the NAACP due to his actions in connection with the defense of two Negro children who were sent to a North Carolina Training School for allowing white girls to kiss them. Williams should be investigated, Marshall allegedly told them, because he will seek to arouse the people in the North Carolina area to take action which could become violent and cause racial unrest and tension. Marshall was, the FBI report stated, afraid of people agitating on such matters in the South since race tension can be easily aroused, especially during the summer months.
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About Timothy B. Tyson
His books have won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, the James A. Rawley Prize (OAH), the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and the Southern Book Award. In addition, two of his books, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (1998) and Blood Done Sign My Name (2004), have been adapted into films, and the latter was also adapted into a play.
In 2017, Tyson published The Blood of Emmett Till, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was longlisted for the National Book Award, but which was later subject to controversy regarding a reported confession made by Till's accuser Carolyn Bryant to Tyson which could not be substantiated.