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Timothy B. Tyson

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Timothy B. Tyson is a senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and Duke Divinity School.

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Human Rights
History

VOICES: The future of North Carolina's past

By Timothy B. Tyson

August 7, 2015 - The notion that the Confederacy represents white North Carolina's heritage is not historical but instead political.

Human Rights
History

He had to be carefully taught

By Timothy B. Tyson

June 22, 2015 - Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof embraced the flags of white-supremacist regimes that did not exist in his lifetime. This is no ordinary racial bias: Someone had to teach him these elaborated historical traditions.