Timothy B. Tyson takes a narrative approach from the first person perspective, as he details the racial tension in a 1970 Oxford, North Carolina rural community. Henry Marrow, a black man, was hunted down and murdered in public for speaking to the white sister-in-law of Gerald Lee, Tyson's white neighbor, by Lee's father and some fellow white men. The police did not intervene, people watched on as another black person lost their life the racism. This murder sent waves of frustration to the black community there and soon riots followed. Black people were angered by this brutal display of hate and police indifference and then, mobilized to show their disapproval and send a message to the white institutions that they would not stand for this through
