marietta (ga.)

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marietta (ga.)

And the dead shall rise

the murder of Mary Phagan and the lynching of Leo Frank
2003
Presents an account of the case of Leo Frank, a Jewish man who moved to Georgia in the early 1900s to run a pencil factory, discussing his trial for the 1913 murder of a young teenage worker, the controversy over his conviction, the governor's commutation of his death sentence, and his lynching by a mob in 1915.
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