NOTED SCHOLAR SPEAKS AT UW: On Thursday, Sept. 14, 4 p.m., the University of Wyoming American Studies Program in Laramie and Amnesty International present a free presentation by Timothy B. Tyson. He will read selections from his work, Blood Done Sign My Name, in the College of Business auditorium. Tyson teaches Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently visiting professor of American Christianity and Southern culture at Duke Divinity School and senior scholar of documentary studies at the Duke's Center for Documentary Studies. His book Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (1999) won the OAH James Rawley Prize and was co-winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize.
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