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Horrifying and urgent. The author did not hold back and was very direct in speech and imagery. I would encourage teachers to refer to this book when discussing the public attitude towards lynching.
 
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ACLopez6 | 1 weitere Rezension | Feb 25, 2023 |
I really admired the author's Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching, but this work falls too short of that for me: a little too dramatized to be a strict history, a lot too dull to be an engrossing narrative.

While the events and social factors leading up to the uprising are laid out fairly well, the days of violence themselves come across as muddled and ill-defined as the book drills in close to show the specific stories of a handful of victims of white supremacy and police brutality at the apparent cost of presenting the bigger picture of what was happening throughout the city.

The writing is flat and the art unpolished and static, with way too many talking heads even in moments of action.

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Contents: [Editor's introduction by Alexa Dilworth, Wesley Hogan, Tom Rankin] -- Prologue -- 1. No Forgotten Men, No Forgotten Races -- 2. The Four Freedoms: Executive Order 8802 -- 3. Meanwhile, Back in Detroit -- 4. The Sojourner Truth Housing Conflict -- 5. Labor, Race, War: 1941-1943 -- 6. Île aux Cochons, Hog Island, Belle Isle -- 7. Trouble in Paradise: Rumor, Riots, and Rebellion -- 8. Topsy/Eva -- 9. Up and Down the Street -- 10. White Lies -- 11. Aftermath -- 12. Eden -- Coda ["Belle Isle, 1949" by Philip Levine, from They Feed They Lion and The Names of the Lost: Poems]
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villemezbrown | Nov 20, 2022 |
A riveting and stomach-turning historical account of a lynching rampage in Georgia in 1918 that saw a white mob murder the pregnant Mary Turner, her unborn child ripped from the womb, her husband, and eight or more other Black men.

The book includes found items and newspaper clippings, and I find the cavalier tone of this excerpt from a local paper of the time to be absolutely chilling:
Hayes Turner was hanged at the Okapilco river in Brooks county last night. His wife, it is claimed made unwise remarks today about the execution of her husband and the people in their indignant mood took exceptions to her remarks, as well as her attitude, and without waiting for nightfall took her to the river where she was hanged and her body riddled with bullets.

A historical marker about the atrocity was erected in 2009 near the site of Turner's murder. It is a sad statement on the current state of affairs that the final words in the book, a footnote under the text of the marker, tell us that it had to be removed in October 2020 due to repeated vandalism.

My only reservation about the book is the use of cursive throughout, which I fear will keep it from being read by many of my daughter's generation and younger who were not taught cursive in school and will see the stylized, splotchy and uneven handwriting as a barrier.
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villemezbrown | 1 weitere Rezension | Feb 6, 2022 |
The zines feature the voices of youth affected by the juvenile justice system: the History of the Juvenile Court in IL, Girls in the System, Youth Stories (of the Incarcerated), and the School-to-Prison Pipeline. This zine series was developed in connection with “Unfinished Business–Juvenile Justice,” the community-curated exhibit at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, on view through August 2011.
 
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clpzines | Dec 11, 2012 |

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