Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching

Author/Contributor(s):	Armstrong, Julie Buckner
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	08/01/2011
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Traces the reaction of activists, artists, writers, and local residents to the brutal lynching of a pregnant woman near Valdosta, Georgia, in 1918. Turner's story became a centerpiece of the Anti-Lynching Crusaders campaign for the 1922 Dyer Bill, which sought to make lynching a federal crime.