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Mary Turner, the Pregnant Black Woman Lynched in 1918 for Condemning Her Husband’s Killers

Mary Turner was an eight-month pregnant African American woman who, in 1918, faced a brutal lynching at the hands of a white mob in Lowndes County, Georgia. . Her “crime” was daring to speak out against the lynching of her husband, Hayes Turner, and publicly denouncing those accountable for his unjust demise.. The chain of […]

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Mary Turner, the Pregnant Black Woman Lynched in 1918 for Condemning Her Husband’s Killers

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