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Additional authors

1. Kaba, Mariame
2. Armstrong, Julie Buckner
3. Forehand, C. Tyrone

Description

1. xi, 57 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 color map; 24 cm

Summary

1. 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

1. Turner, Mary, 1885-1918 > Death and burial > Pictorial works
2. 1900-1999
3. Lynching > Georgia > Valdosta > Case studies > Pictorial works
4. Lynching > Georgia > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
5. Mass murder > Georgia > Valdosta > Case studies > Pictorial works
6. Murder > Georgia > Valdosta > Case studies > Pictorial works
7. African American women > Violence against > Georgia > Valdosta > Case studies > Pictorial works
8. African American women > Violence against > History > Georgia > 20th century > Pictorial works
9. African Americans > Crimes against > Georgia > Valdosta > Case studies > Pictorial works
10. African American women > Violence against
11. African Americans > Crimes against
12. Lynching
13. Mass murder
14. Murder
15. Georgia
16. Georgia > Walton County

Genre/Form

1. True crime stories.
2. History.
3. Pictorial works.

Contents

1. 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

1. Sc E 21-1115

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (page vi).

Author

1. Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane, 1972- author.

Title

1. 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

1. London : Verso, 2021.

Copyright date

1. ©2021

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (page vi).

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Kaba, Mariame, writer of introduction.
2. Armstrong, Julie Buckner, writer of afterword.
3. Forehand, C. Tyrone, writer of postscript.

LCCN

1. 2021289522

ISBN

1. 9781788739047 (paperback)
2. 1788739043 (paperback)

Research call number

1. Sc E 21-1115