***This Substack post describes gruesome racial violence and murder***
The murder of Mary Turner on May 19, 1918, was an especially gruesome one. Mary’s husband had been lynched the previous day and when she confronted the mob responsible, they attacked her. She was eight months pregnant. They hung her upside down from Folsom Bridge in Lowndes County, Ge…
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