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Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching

Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching

Kaba, Mariame
Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane
Armstrong, Julie

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Biographies GeneralBlack American HistoryBlack American Studies

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ISBN10: 1788739043
ISBN13: 9781788739047
Publisher: Verso
Published: Mar 16 2021
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artwork

In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman--Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time--were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens.

Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary Turner names those who were killed, identifies the killers, and evokes a landscape in which the NAACP investigated the crimes when the state would not and a time when white citizens baked pies and flocked to see Black corpses while Black people fought to make their lives--and their mourning--matter.

Included are contributions from C. Tyrone Forehand, great-grandnephew of Mary and Hayes Turner, whose family has long campaigned for the deaths to be remembered; abolitionist activist and educator Mariame Kaba, reflecting on the violence visited on Black women's bodies; and historian Julie Buckner Armstrong, who opens a window onto the broader scale of lynching's terror in American history.

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