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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, when white citizens baked pies and flocked to see black corpses, and when black people fought to make their lives—and their mourning—matter.
With introductions from C. Tyrone Forehand, great grand-nephew 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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Sociology, Pictorial works, Death and burial, Lynching, Case studies, History, Mass murder, Murder, African American women, Violence against, African Americans, Crimes against, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black, HISTORY / African American & Black, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies, Illustrated works, True crime stories, African American & Black History, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Ethnic Studies, African American & Black StudiesPeople
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Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching
2021, Verso
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1788739043 9781788739047
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