Lynching & racial terror
The Mary Turner lynching rampage
16-24 May 1918; Mary Turner was killed on 19 MayFolsom Bridge over the Little River, Brooks and Lowndes county line, Barney, GA
Mobs lynched at least eleven Black people across Brooks and Lowndes counties in a week. Mary Turner, eight months pregnant, was killed for publicly objecting to her husband's lynching.
- People killed
- 11–13
- People displaced
- 500
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