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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.
- 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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