Description: Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching, Paperback by Armstrong, Julie Buckner, ISBN 0820337668, ISBN-13 9780820337661, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Near Valdosta, Georgia in 1918, the murder of a white farmer led to a week of mob violence that claimed the lives of at least eleven African Americans. When Mary Turner, the young pregnant wife of one of the victims, spoke out against her husband's murderers, she was lynched with her eight-month-old fetus cut from her belly and murdered. Armstrong (English, U South Florida, St. Petersburg) researches the event as well as the responses by historians, activists, women, artists and others who worked to remember, as well as those who strove to forget, this event. She also looks at different and changing cultural attitudes towards lynching and its role in and affect on American history and culture. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching
Language: English
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Murder / General, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Violence in Society, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Subject Area: True Crime, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Julie Buckner Armstrong
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
