Elegy for Mary Turner an illustrated account of a lynching
In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary Turner names those who were killed, identifies the k...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London ; Brooklyn, NY
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2021
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| Online Zugang: | Book review, Erelka Lehoczky, NPR, 21 March 2021 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary Turner names those who were killed, identifies the killers, and evokes a landscape in which the NAACP investigated the crimes when the state would not and a time when white citizens baked pies and flocked to see Black corpses while Black people fought to make their lives—and their mourning—matter. Included are contributions from C. Tyrone Forehand, great-grandnephew of Mary and Hayes Turner, whose family has long campaigned for the deaths to be remembered; abolitionist activist and educator Mariame Kaba, reflecting on the violence visited on Black women’s bodies; and historian Julie Buckner Armstrong, who opens a window onto the broader scale of lynching’s terror in American history |
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| Beschreibung: | xi, 57 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781788739047 978-1-78873-904-7 1788739043 1-78873-904-3 |