Amy Mallard and Racial Justice

The first book to document the story of Amy Mallard,who bravely sought justice for the lynching of her husband and became anadvocate for civil rights In this book, Matthew Lippmandetails the little-known story of Amy Mallard, a schoolteacher from ruralGeorgia who, after the lynching of her husband, Robert “Duck” Mallard, in 1948,courageously sought justice through the legal system. Lippman explores Mallard’strajectory from a victim to a civil rights activist. Thestory begins with Amy Mallard’s a