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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.

Van Pelt Library HV6465.G4 W55 2021
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane, 1972- author.
Contributor:
Kaba, Mariame, writer of introduction.
Armstrong, Julie Buckner, writer of afterword.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Lynching--Georgia--Walton County.
Lynching.
Mass murder--Georgia--Walton County.
Mass murder.
African American women--Violence against--Georgia--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
African American women.
Lynching--Georgia--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
Murder--Georgia--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
Murder.
African Americans--Crimes against--Georgia--Walton County.
African Americans.
African American women--Violence against.
African Americans--Crimes against.
Turner, Mary, 1885-1918--Death and burial.
Turner, Mary.
History.
Georgia.
Georgia--Walton County.
Genre:
History.
Pictorial works.
Illustrated works.
Physical Description:
xi, 57 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
London : Verso, 2021.
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.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page vi).
ISBN:
1788739043
9781788739047
OCLC:
1153548549
Publisher Number:
99987454474

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