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 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 lo…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78873-906-1
- EAN: 9781788739061
- Produktnummer: 35889666
- Verlag: Verso
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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