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Mary Turner and the Mob: The Brooks-Lowndes Race Riot of 1918 in History and Memory

By Thomas Aiello
Narrated by: Jim Seybert
Unabridged — 8 hours, 20 minutes
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By Thomas Aiello
Narrated by: Jim Seybert
Unabridged — 8 hours, 20 minutes
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A reinterpretation of one of America's most notorious lynchings



The 1918 lynching of Mary Turner by a white mob in Brooks County, Georgia, is remembered and studied mainly because of the horror of an allegedly pregnant woman's murder. In Mary Turner and the Mob, author Thomas Aiello asserts that the gruesome details of Turner's execution have distracted historians from investigating the larger context of these terrible events. Turner was murdered but not pregnant, the author contends, and Wa...