The Lynching of Mary Turner

In May 1918, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant, publicly protested the lynching of her husband, Hayes Turner, by a white mob in Valdosta, Georgia, and threatened to have them arrested. To "teach her a lesson," the mob seized her, shot her repeatedly, strangled her, then hung her from a tree and repeatedly stabbed her unborn child to death. Her body was mutilated and left for days as a warning to others. Despite eyewitnesses, no one was ever prosecuted for this atrocity.

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