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What's most shocking is that Jim Conley, a black man who was the real murderer, was able to escape unharmed, His testimony is what doomed Leo Frank,

The antisemitism that arose, which eventually led to Frank's lynching, helped the resurgence of the KKK, Protect white womanhood and purity at all costs, Mary Phagan's murder spurred authorities to act, but the murders of black girls and women in Georgia went unsolved, without any public outcry, I read this book as research for an upcoming production of "Parade, " I'm so glad I did, This classic case study beautifully and succinctly paints the picture of Atlanta inand the circumstances surrounding Leo Frank, This book has been invaluable in the planning of our production, My ratings of books on Goodreads are solely a crude ranking of their utility to me, and not an evaluation of literary merit, entertainment value, social importance, humor, insightfulness, scientific accuracy, creative vigor, suspensefulness of plot, depth of characters, vitality of theme, excitement of climax, satisfaction of ending, or any other combination of dimensions of value which we are expected to boil down through some fabulous alchemy into a single digit.
Almostyear old mill worker found dead in basement of pencil factory, Owner, Leo Frank accused
tried and convicted, Appeals to State Supreme Court and federal courts and no relief, Finally death sentence commuted by Ga, gov. Slaton. Frank moved to Milledgeville prison, but vigilantes break him out and take him to Marietta Cobb Co, where victim, Mary Phagan, was from, Then hung.
Knights of Mary Phagan to rescue her honor later become the revived Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan, Factory caretaker, witness against Leo Frank, confessed during proceedings probably
killed Mary Phagan, Very good, coollyreasoned overview of the murders of Mary Phagan and Leo Frank, The evidence that came out years after the dual disaster are tucked into the appendices and the prefaces, I did not know about Leo Frank until I saw a production of Parade, which is what lead me to seek out this book, It is more of a factual scholarly read than a historical narrative I prefer the later, and it is more specific to the case and appeal and how antisemitism played into Frank's conviction and subsequent death.
I wish I had gotten to know more of who Frank was, and more of the significance of his case, but that wasn't the point of this book.
It also includes an overview of antisemitism in American history which is important, This book details the case of Leo Frank accused of murder of Mary Phagan in, Frank was the superintendent of a pencil factory and Mary was a young girl who worked at the factory, The

factory was located in Atlanta, Georgia, The book not only chronicles the case and the trial, but also the social conditions in the south, The fact that Frank was Jewish brought out a lot of prejudice and combined with the social tensions brought on by industrialization were factors in the case, Frank was convicted and sentenced to death on the basis of flimsy evidence, All appeals were denied but his sentence of death was commuted to life in prison by the governor, Frank was then kidnapped from the prison and hanged,
The book does a good job of showing how prejudice newspaper sensationalism, and questionable tactics combined to deprive Frank of a fair trial, The author concludes with later Supreme Court decisions rectified many of the factors that lead to the questionable verdict, The events surrounding themurder of the young Atlanta factory worker Mary Phagan and the subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, the transplanted northern Jew who was her employer and accused killer, were so wide ranging and tumultuous that they prompted both the founding of Bnai Briths AntiDefamation League and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Leo Frank Case was the first comprehensive account of not only Phagans murder and Franks trial and lynching but also the sensational newspaper coverage, popular hysteria, and legal demagoguery that surrounded these events.
Forty years after the book first appeared, and more than ninety years after the deaths of Phagan and Frank, it remains a gripping account of injustice, In his preface to the revised edition, Leonard Dinnerstein discusses the ongoing cultural impact of the Frank affair, .