By GABRIELLE LEWIS, VICTORIA IFATUSIN and JAMILLE WHITLOW The Howard Center For Investigative Journalism It was May 18, 1918, and Mary Turner was grieving. Her husband, Hayes Turner, had been lynched without a trial, accused of being an accomplice in the murder of a white farmer. Her unborn baby would be raised without a father. […]
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