Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching

"Rachel Marie-Crane Williams confronts evil in its own realm – the realm of art. Using a mix of original illustrations, archival documents and handwritten text, she memorializes 10 Black men and one woman – Mary Turner – who were lynched by white residents of Brooks County, Ga., in 1918. Some of Williams’ woodcuts are numbly static; others throb and seethe. This book demonstrates how to fight the kind of evil that stuns you into silence: If you can’t do it with words, go beyond them."