These women including an eight-month-old pregnant mother of two were lynched by white mob during the Jim Crow era

Mary Turner

In May 1918, Mary Turner was eight months pregnant when a mob of several hundred men and women murdered her in Valdosta, Georgia. 

According to the Associated Press report, she had made “unwise remarks” and “flew into a rage” about the lynching of her husband, insisting that she would press charges against the men responsible.

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A mob turned against her, determined to “teach her a lesson.” After she was lynched, her baby was cut from her body and brutally murdered. The mob then shot her over 100 times.

Turner’s death has since been recognized by residents, students, and faculty at Valdosta State University.