Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, "Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching" (Verso, 2021)
b'In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman\\u2014Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time\\u2014were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens.\\nThrough hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary Turner names those who were killed, identifies the killers, and evokes a landscape in which the NAACP investigated the crimes when the state would not and a time when white citizens baked pies and flocked to see Black corpses while Black people fought to make their lives\\u2014and their mourning\\u2014matter.\\nIncluded are contributions from C. Tyrone Forehand, great-grandnephew of Mary and Hayes Turner, whose family has long campaigned for the deaths to be remembered; abolitionist activist and educator Mariame Kaba, reflecting on the violence visited on Black women\\u2019s bodies; and historian Julie Buckner Armstrong, who opens a window onto the broader scale of lynching\\u2019s terror in American history.\\nAll royalties from\\xa0Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching\\xa0(Verso, 2021) go to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, GA.\\nBrandon T. Jett, professor of history at Florida SouthWestern State College, creator of the\\xa0Lynching in LaBelle\\xa0Digital History Project, and author of\\xa0Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South\\xa0(LSU Press, 202) Twitter: @DrBrandonJett1\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law'