Mary Turner and the Mob : The Brooks-Lowndes Race Riot of 1918 in History and Memory / Thomas Aiello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aiello, Thomas, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Victims of crimes in mass media.

Turner, Mary, 1885-1918--Death and burial.

Turner, Mary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2025]

Summary:

A reinterpretation of one of America's most notorious lynchings The 1918 lynching of Mary Turner by a white mob in Brooks County, Georgia, is remembered and studied mainly because of the horror of an allegedly pregnant woman's murder. In Mary Turner and the Mob, author Thomas Aiello asserts that the gruesome details of Turner's execution have distracted historians from investigating the larger context of these terrible events. Turner was murdered but not pregnant, the author contends, and Walter White, the NAACP investigator in the case, knew this but obscured the facts because of the story's effectiveness. Aiello approaches Turner's murder and broader violence in Brooks County not only as a series of lynchings in the rural South but also as events best understood as part of a sustained wave of racial violence during the long Red Summer, beginning in East St. Louis in 1917 and continuing until the Tulsa Massacre in 1921.

Contents:

Cover

Mary Turner and the Mob

Title

Copyright

CONTENTS

List of Tables

Introduction: Race, Gender, and Violence

CHAPTER ONE The Revolt and the Rampage

CHAPTER TWO Lynchings and Riots

CHAPTER THREE Memory and Mythmaking

CHAPTER FOUR Lost in Translation

CHAPTER FIVE Institutional White Supremacy

CHAPTER SIX Memory and Media

Conclusion: The Turner Legacy

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781643365053

1643365053