Mary Turner and the memory of lynching / Julie Buckner Armstrong.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Armstrong, Julie Buckner
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2011], ©2011.
Subjects:
Lynching > Georgia > History > 20th century.
Georgia > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Murder > Georgia > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Georgia > Social conditions > 20th century.
Physical Description:xii, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Birth and nation: Mary Turner and the discourse of lynching
  • Silence, voice, and motherhood: constructing lynching as a Black woman's issue
  • Brutal facts and split-gut words: constructing lynching as a national trauma
  • Contemporary confrontations: recovering the memory of Mary Turner
  • Conclusion: marking a collective past.