Title Elegy for Mary Turner : an illustrated account of a lynching / by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams ; introduction by Mariame Kaba ; afterword by Julie Buckner Armstrong ; postscript by C. Tyron Forehand.

Publication Info.	London : Verso, 2021.
	©2021

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Description	xi, 57 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (page vi).
Contents	Introduction: Say Her Name-1918, 1949, 2021-Mary Turner and the "Wife of the victim" / Mariame Kaba - Elegy for Mary Turner: An illustrated account of a lynching - Afterword: Hidden Memories / Julie Buckner Armstrong - Postscript: A place to lay their heads / C. Tyrone Forehand (great-grandnephew of Hayes and Mary Turner).
Summary	Powerful and haunting, this depiction, detailed with full-color artwork, names those who were lynched and tortured in late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, including one black woman, Mary Turner, who was eight months pregnant at the time.
Subject	Turner, Mary, 1885-1918 -- Death and burial.
	Lynching -- Georgia -- Walton County.
	Mass murder -- Georgia -- Walton County.
	African American women -- Violence against -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
	Lynching -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
	Murder -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
	African Americans -- Crimes against -- Georgia -- Walton County.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black.
	HISTORY / African American & Black.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.
	African American women -- Violence against. (OCoLC)fst00799471
	African Americans -- Crimes against. (OCoLC)fst00799595
	Lynching. (OCoLC)fst01004334
	Mass murder. (OCoLC)fst01011417
	Murder. (OCoLC)fst01029781
	Georgia. (OCoLC)fst01204622
	Georgia -- Walton County. (OCoLC)fst01213895
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
Added Author	Kaba, Mariame, writer of introduction.
	Armstrong, Julie Buckner, writer of afterword.
ISBN	1788739043 (paperback)
	9781788739047 (paperback)

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