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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: With Tim Tyson on Moral Monday in N.C.

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: With Tim Tyson on Moral Monday in N.C.:

With Tim Tyson on Moral Monday in N.C.

Tim Tyson
Susan and I stopped in and paid a visit with old friend Tim Tyson in Durham, N.C. yesterday. A professor at Duke University, Tim was on his way over to the Moral Monday protest in Raliegh. 

Susan Klonsky reports from Durham:

Tim is a historian with a long view of the current wave of retrograde legislation and its connection to the history of race in North Carolina. He is one of the organizers of Moral Monday and has been arrested numerous times in the sit-ins. His 83-year-old father, Rev. Vernon Tyson, was recently arrested, as have been pretty much all the members of the Tyson family.

At yesterday's protest
Yesterday at the North Carolina Statehouse in Raleigh more than a thousand protestors convened the12th weekly "Moral Monday" wheremore than 70 people were