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    Mary Turnerwas a nineteen-year-old married black woman and mother of two who was lynched by a white mob in Lowndes County, Georgia, for having spoken out in protest at the lynching death of her husband Hazel "Hayes" Turner the day before. Both murders followed the murder of a white plantation owner by one of his black workers, and were associated with the deaths of 12 other persons during a manhunt. These deaths are examples of the racially motivated mob violence... (wikipedia)

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