Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching

Name: Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching
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ISBN: 9780820337661

ISBN-10: 0820337668

ISBN-13: 9780820337661

Edition: 2011

Authors: Julie Buckner Armstrong

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Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynchingtraces the reaction of activists, artists, writers, and local residents to the brutal lynching of a pregnant woman 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, including Hayes Turner. When his wife Mary vowed to press charges against the killers, she too fell victim to the mob. Maryâ€™s lynching was particularly brutal and involved the grisly death of her eight-month-old fetus. It led to both an entrenched local silence and a widespread national response in newspaper and magazine accounts, visual art, film, literature, and public memorials.…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 8/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Julie Buckner Armstrong is an associate professor of English at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. She is coeditor ofTeaching the American Civil Rights Movement: Freedomrsquo;s Bittersweet Songand editor ofThe Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation(Georgia).



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Birth and Nation: Mary Turner and the Discourse of Lynching



Silence, Voice, and Motherhood: Constructing Lynching as a Black Woman's Issue



Brutal Facts and Split-Gut Words: Constructing Lynching as a National Trauma



Contemporary Confrontations: Recovering the Memory of Mary Turner


Conclusion


Marking a Collective Past


Appendixes



"Hamp Smith Murdered; Young Wife Attacked by Negro Farm Hands"



"Her Talk Enraged Them: Mary Turner Taken to Folsom's Bridge and Hanged"



Joseph B. Cumming, Letter to the Editor



The Colored Welfare League, Resolutions Adopted and Sent to Governor Dorsey Urging that He Exercise His Authority Against Such Acts of Barbarism



Colored Federated Clubs of Georgia, Resolutions Expressive of Feelings Sent to President and Governor



Memorandum for Governor Dorsey from Walter F. White



Carrie Williams Clifford, "Little Mother (Upon the Lynching of Mary Turner)"



Honorï¿½e Fanonne Jeffers, "dirty south moon"


Notes


Bibliography


Index