Mary Turner
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Mary Turner (d. 1918) was an African-American lynching victim in Valdosta, Georgia.
In May, 1918, a white plantation owner was killed after a quarrel with one of his black tenants. A mob sought revenge; failing to find the tenant, they instead killed another black man, Hayes Turner. Distraught, his eight-month pregnant wife Mary threatened to have members of the mob arrested, which caused the mob to turn against her. She was taken from her home by a mob of several hundred, had her ankles tied, was hung upside down from a tree, doused in gasoline and motor oil and set on fire.[1]
A member of the mob split her abdomen open with a knife, and the unborn child fell to ground, where his head was crushed under the heel of another member of the mob. Finally, Turner's body was riddled with bullets.[2]
[edit] See also
- Lynching in the United States
- Nadir of American race relations
- Mass racial violence in the United States: War and Inter-War Period: 1914 - 1945
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Remembering Mary Turner
- Contemporary account of Walter White in The Crisis
- The Anti-Lynching Crusaders, Digital History
