Mary Turner
Female, Deceased Person
– 1918
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Who was Mary Turner?
Mary Turner was a twenty-one-year-old African-American victim of lynching in Valdosta, Georgia. Eight months pregnant, Turner and her child were murdered after she publicly denounced the extrajudicial killing of her husband by a mob. Her death is considered a stark example of racially motivated mob violence in the American south, and was referenced by the NAACP's anti-lynching campaign of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.
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