May 19, 2022
Today is The 104th Anniversary of the Lynching of 8 Months Pregnant Mary Turner.
Today is recognized as the birthday of Malcolm X and rightly it should be. May 19th also marks the day 104 years ago when 8 months pregnant Mary Turner was lynched in Valdosta, Georgia. Unfortunately, she rarely gets similar attention
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Mary Turner, 1919 Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller [Public domain] The below image of the news article from the 1918 edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution is the first piece of evidence proving Mary Turner had been lynched on May 19, 1918. That was 100 years ago as of May 19, 2018. Malcolm X was born on that date seven years later in 1925. Atlanta Journal Constitution…
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