Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching

Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

80 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography history medium-paced

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A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artwork In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were ly...

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