Elegy for Mary Turner: an illustrated account of a lynching

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 k...

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1. Verfasser: Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane 1972- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Armstrong, Julie Buckner 1961- (VerfasserIn eines Nachworts)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; Brooklyn, NY Verso 2021
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USA
Online-Zugang:Book review, Erelka Lehoczky, NPR, 21 March 2021
Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:xi, 57 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte 24 cm
ISBN:9781788739047
1788739043

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