An Author Replies To The Unspeakable In Her ‘Elegy’ For Lynching Victim Mary Turner

Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching, by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

Using original illustrations, archival documents and handwritten text, Rachel Marie-Crane Williams memorializes one black woman, and 10 men, who were killed by white residents in Georgia in 1918.

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Using original illustrations, archival documents and handwritten text, Rachel Marie-Crane Williams memorializes one black woman, and 10 men, who were killed by white residents in Georgia in 1918.