Mary Turner Lynched in Georgia at Eight Months Pregnant for Protesting Husband's Murder

Mary Turner, eight months pregnant, was lynched by a mob in Lowndes County, Georgia after publicly objecting to her husband Hayes Turner's lynching the previous day and threatening to press charges. She was hung upside down, doused in gasoline and motor oil, burned, then her abdomen was slashed open and her nearly full-term fetus was removed and stomped on. She was one of at least eight Black people killed in a week in that county. Her case became a cause célèbre for anti-lynching campaigners; the NAACP used her murder as Exhibit A in their lobbying for federal legislation.