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Elegy for Mary Turner : an illustrated account of a lynching

Elegy for Mary Turner : an illustrated account of a lynching

Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane, 1972- author.
Book 2021

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.

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ISBN:
9781788739047
Description:
xi, 57 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 color map ; 24 cm
Notes:
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)
LCCN:
2021289522
Control Number:
3095563
Other Authors:
Armstrong, Julie Buckner, writer of afterword
Forehand, C. Tyrone, writer of postscript
Kaba, Mariame, writer of introduction
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