Lucy Mae Turner: A Forgotten Daughter of the New Negro Renaissance

Dr. Tanya Walker

Like their male counterparts, many female writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Georgia Douglas Johnson tackled subjects like lynching, socio-economic inequities, and sexual violence, subjects that consumed many black thinkers and other artists of their time. Yet, the women created their works to serve as platforms for emphasizing black women’s perspectives. This project addresses the issue of under-representation in the study of black women writers by compiling primary and secondary data and creating of a multimedia database for researchers and students. As a digital humanities project, this work reaches beyond traditional ways of researching authors and texts by blending the content of the English discipline with the innovation of technology to increase accessibility of the content.