New Left Radio
New Left Radio
Apr 13, 2021
A History of Violence - Interview w/ Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
Play • 53 min

In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens.

In today’s episode, we’re joined by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams to discuss her book, Elegy for Mary Turner, a haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, the history behind the book, and why the dark subject drew her in demanding its story be told.

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