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Elegy for Mary Turner : an illustrated account of a lynching

Title
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.
Author
Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane, 1972-
Publication
  • London : Verso, 2021.
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Kaba, Mariame
  • Armstrong, Julie Buckner
  • Forehand, C. Tyrone
Description
xi, 57 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 color map; 24 cm
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.
Subject
  • Turner, Mary, 1885-1918 > Death and burial > Pictorial works
  • 1900-1999
  • Lynching > Georgia > Valdosta > Case studies > Pictorial works
  • Lynching > Georgia > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
  • Mass murder > Georgia > Valdosta > Case studies > Pictorial works
  • Murder > Georgia > Valdosta > Case studies > Pictorial works
  • African American women > Violence against > Georgia > Valdosta > Case studies > Pictorial works
  • African American women > Violence against > History > Georgia > 20th century > Pictorial works
  • African Americans > Crimes against > Georgia > Valdosta > Case studies > Pictorial works
  • African American women > Violence against
  • African Americans > Crimes against
  • Lynching
  • Mass murder
  • Murder
  • Georgia
  • Georgia > Walton County
Genre/Form
  • True crime stories.
  • History.
  • Pictorial works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page vi).
Contents
Introduction: Say her name, 1918, 1949, 2021 : Mary Turner and the "wife of the victim" / by Mariame Kaba -- Elegy for Mary Turner : an illustrated account of a lynching -- Afterword: Hidden memories / by Julie Buckner Armstrong -- Postscript: A place to lay their heads / by C. Tyrone Forehand (great-grandnephew of Hayes and Mary Turner).
Call Number
Sc E 21-1115
ISBN
  • 9781788739047
  • 1788739043
LCCN
2021289522
OCLC
1153548549
Author
Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane, 1972- author.
Title
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.
Publisher
London : Verso, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page vi).
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Kaba, Mariame, writer of introduction.
Armstrong, Julie Buckner, writer of afterword.
Forehand, C. Tyrone, writer of postscript.
Research Call Number
Sc E 21-1115
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