Birth and nation: Mary Turner and the discourse of lynching
Silence, voice, and motherhood: constructing lynching as a Black woman's issue
Brutal facts and split-gut words: constructing lynching as a national trauma
Contemporary confrontations: recovering the memory of Mary Turner
Conclusion: marking a collective past
Appendixes: selected creative and documentary responses to the 1918 Brooks-Lowndes lynchings
Appendix 1. "Hamp Smith murdered; young wife attacked by negro farm hands"
Appendix 2. "Her talk enraged them: Mary Turner taken to Folsom's bridge and hanged"
Appendix 3. Joseph B. Cumming, letter to the editor
Appendix 4. The colored welfare league (Augusta, Georgia), "Resolutions adopted and sent to Governor Dorsey urging that he exercise his authority against such acts of barbarism"
Appendix 5. Colored federated clubs of Georgia, "Resolutions expressive of feelings sent to president and governor"
Appendix 6. Memorandum for Governor Dorsey from Walter F. White
Appendix 7. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Little mother (upon the lynching of Mary Turner)"
Appendix 8. Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, "dirty south moon".