Blood Done Sign My Name (2010)

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Blood Done Sign My Name is American Drama movie who based on the autobiographical book Blood Done Sign My Name (2004) by historian Timothy Tyson. Written, Directed by Jeb Stuart and also Produced by Jeb Stuart, Mel Efros, David Martin and Mari Stuart who tells of a Black Vietnam veteran is said to have been murdered by a local white businessman, who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a teacher from the local high school and the civil unrest that followed the acquittal. It starring

Plot

Set on 1970, Reverend Vernon Tyson and his family arrived in Oxford, North Carolina, to represent the all-white Methodist Church of the area. While the civil rights movement is now ten years old, which has contributed to many changes in people's lives elsewhere, it has bypassed this culture where blacks outnumber whites have yet to be held in their place by Oxford's leaders. When the minister welcomes a black clergyman as a guest preacher, he feels the heat of local mustaches and members of the congregation. His ten-year-old son Tim (Gattlin Griffith) is shocked by his peers' dislike of blacks. One night, his father introduced him to a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan as an introduction to the force of hate.

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Ben Chavis, a young and energetic teacher at the all-black Oxford Academy, wants his students to stand up for themselves and speak out against racism. Then the tragedy turns it around for the blacks in Oxford: Ben's nephew, Henry "Dickie" Marrow (A.C. Sanford), who has just returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam, is assassinated by the racist father Robert Teel (Nick Searcy) and his two sons. There are many black witnesses to this heinous crime. The Teels have not been arrested for two days.

The black community's outrage over Marrow's murder is being channeled into a peaceful 50-mile march to the state capitol, led by Gordon Frinks (Afemo Omilami), a national figure in the civil rights movement. Back in Oxford, the rage of young blacks hits a high point when they hear that the entire jury for the Teels trial is white. They set fire to the town's tobacco warehouses using Molotov cocktails. Frinks leaves and Chavis takes over as the chief of his own people. It empowers them to come up with a new strategy: boycotting Oxford companies that have regarded them as second-class citizens for so long. Rev. Tyson also leaves after he is forced to step down, however his crusade to teach Christians the importance of justice finds a zealous and faithful convert in his son Tim.

Controversy

This movie shows that black people cant be the same as white people ever, There are scene all children still attend separate schools; blacks must buy their movie tickets and enter by a side door and sit in the balcony, their money is welcome in the stores, but they can work in them only if they push a broom and there is a scene when white barber will not cut a black’s hair, and a white grocery store owner sells goods at jacked-up prices, telling one upset woman that she can walk the distance to a store in another town if she wants the item at the cheaper price. And id there any black man who added as a police officers, everyone knows that he is not permitted to ticket or arrest a white man. And the most saddest part is when you were witness to a murder of a black man by a white man and youre scared because you are black and you know you cant do anything.[1]

Pros

The film shows when the people have agreed to stage a march on the capitol some fifty miles away to protest to the governor of the unjust treatment of blacks and to get the justice because of the horrific murder of a totally innocent black man by three white men even there are some witnesses[2] There is also a speech from the actor to black people to keep fighting seeks the justice "We will not stop until we have justice. No! Blood has done signed our name! The blood of Martin Luther King…the blood of Medgar Evers…the blood of Malcolm X…the blood of Dickie Marrows brought us here today.” [3]

Those born in 1970 will be 40 this year. The acquittal of white racists by all-white juries is no longer the Southern routine. It took unpopular and courageous actions by a lot of people to bring about that change, and it is not yet complete. But it happened, and I think Tim Tyson, who isn't 50 yet, wrote his book to say it happened. If you know how to look, history doesn't take place too fast to be seen.[4]

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