Elegy for Mary Turner

An Illustrated Account of a Lynching

Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

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Verso Books
30 March 2021

Human figures depicted in art; History of the Americas

In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through 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, when white citizens baked pies and flocked to see black corpses, and when black people fought to make their lives—and their mourning—matter.

With introductions from C. Tyrone Forehand, great grand-nephew 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’s bodies; and historian Julie Buckner Armstrong, who opens a window onto the broader scale of lynching’s terror in American history.

By: Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
Imprint: Verso Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 207g
ISBN: 9781788739047
ISBN 10: 1788739043
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 30 March 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rachel Marie-Crane Williams is an artist and teacher, currently an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa in Art and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies. She has worked with incarcerated women since 1994. Her scholarship - both graphic and textual - has been published by the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, the International Journal of Comic Art, and many others.

Reviews for Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching

In this particular historical moment when young Black people are engaged in a renewed struggle against state violence, Mary Turner's story resonates. She insists that we #SayHerName too. - Mariame Kaba, founder and director of Project NIA, from the preface