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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
“On May 19, 1918, a white mob from Brooks County, Georgia, lynched Mary Turner, a Black woman who was eight months pregnant, at Folsom’s Bridge 16 miles north of Valdosta for speaking publicly against the lynching of her husband the day before. The mob bound her feet, hanged her from a tree with her head facing down, threw gasoline on her, and burned the clothes off her body. Mrs. Turner was still alive when the mob took a large butcher’s knife to her abdomen, cutting the unborn baby from her body. When the baby fell from Mary Turner, a member of the mob crushed the crying baby’s head with his foot. The mob then riddled Mrs. Turner’s body with hundreds of bullets, killing her.”
How much is the life of Mary Turner and her unborn baby worth? Reparations? or Retribution!
The entire article can be found here – https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/19
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May 19, 1918 | Mary Turner, Pregnant, Lynched in Georgia for Criticizing Husband's Lynching
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NonMwenSe, Nnemkadi and 5 others3 Comments-
Never to be forgotten.
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Being born in Florida and hitting the Georgia border past Jacksonville, you get to Valdosta and see that huge confederate flag flying, gave me a sense of stories like this although I didn’t know this specific one. It’s like you can feel it. So much terrorism lynchings happened during this time, Papa Garvey had arrived in 1916, and him speaking out against what went down in East St Louis in 1917, ultimately had him remain in the u.s. to fight for Black people. From this story in 1918, then the following year was the Red Summer of 1919.
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and never happen again to Kmtyw!!
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