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aclopez6's review
5.0
Horrifying and urgent. The author did not hold back and was very direct in speech and imagery. I would encourage teachers to refer to this book when discussing the public attitude towards lynching.
ellakatona's review
4.0
Very very very important to read and gain knowledge on. Everyone should know the true facts of these events.
tessie72's review
4.0
I don't think I have the right words to describe my feelings about this book. It made me cry (for all the victims) and it made me angry (at my own race). Several times I asked aloud; "What the hell is wrong with people?" No one deserves to die in the way these people did and I'm glad someone is trying to give the story the attention it deserves. It will not be a book I soon forget. . . . .
silodear's review
4.0
TW for explicit racial violence.
This is a haunting and harrowing tale of the lynching of a black woman told through pictures and hand written text. It left me rattled.
This is a haunting and harrowing tale of the lynching of a black woman told through pictures and hand written text. It left me rattled.
spacestationtrustfund's review
3.0
In May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, around a dozen black men and one black woman—the eponymous Mary Turner—were lynched and tortured by white residents. Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, was assaulted on May 19, a day after her husband Hayes Turner had been lynched and murdered. Mary was severely beaten, strung up by her feet, then doused in petrol and set on fire. Her stomach was cut open and the fetus was torn from her uterus, then crushed underfoot. Mary was then shot upwards of 100 times. Nearly a century later an historical marker memorialising the victims was placed near the site of the lynchings. Although the memorial stood for a little over a decade, it was repeatedly vandalised, with around 30 bullet holes recorded, and was struck multiple times by an unknown vehicle. No perpetrators were ever charged for the vandalism. On 8 October 2020, the Mary Turner Project in coordination with the Georgia Historical Society removed and stored the memorial to protect it from further vandalism. "We still wait," says this book, "for the arc of the moral universe to bend towards justice."
ctsquirrel's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
fast-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Hate crime, Death, Murder, Racism, and Violence
Moderate: Blood