Mary Turner and the memory of lynching / Julie Buckner Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, Julie Buckner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lynching--Georgia--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Social conditions.

Murder.

History.

Lynching.

Georgia--Race relations--History--20th century.

Georgia.

Race relations.

Murder--Georgia--History--20th century.

African Americans--Georgia--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

xii, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2011]

Summary:

Near Valdosta, Georgia in 1918, the murder of a white farmer led to a week of mob violence that claimed the lives of at least eleven African Americans. When Mary Turner, the young pregnant wife of one of the victims, spoke out against her husband's murderers, she was lynched with her eight-month-old fetus cut from her belly and murdered. Armstrong (English, U South Florida, St. Petersburg) researches the event as well as the responses by historians, activists, women, artists and others who worked to remember, as well as those who strove to forget, this event. She also looks at different and changing cultural attitudes towards lynching and its role in and affect on American history and culture. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Birth and nation: Mary Turner and the discourse of lynching

Silence, voice, and motherhood: constructing lynching as a Black woman's issue

Brutal facts and split-gut words: constructing lynching as a national trauma

Contemporary confrontations: recovering the memory of Mary Turner

Conclusion: marking a collective past.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820337654

082033765X

9780820337661

0820337668

OCLC:

687680059