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TIL of Mary Turner, a black woman killed in 1918. A mob hung her upside down from a tree and set her on fire. Still alive, a member of the mob cut her stomach open with a knife. Her unborn child fell on the ground, where it was stomped on and crushed. Finally, her body was shot hundreds of times.

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