Unknown Story
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- Leo Frank was a Jewish-American factory superintendent who was convicted in 1913 for the murder of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old girl who worked at the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, Georgia. Despite economic factors and anti-Semitic sentiments, Frank was found guilty and sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Two years later, he was lynched by a mob of anti-Semitic vigilantes. Frank's case became a symbol of the prejudice and injustice faced by Jewish Americans in the South at the time.
- Leo Frank was accused of the murder of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old girl who worked at the National Pencil Company which Frank managed.
- The trial of Leo Frank was a highly publicized and controversial case that took place in 1913 and 1914 in Atlanta, Georgia. Leo Frank, a Jewish-American businessman, was accused of the murder of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old girl who worked in his pencil factory
- Leo Frank was found guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan in 1913 in Georgia. He was sentenced to death by hanging.After his conviction was upheld by various courts, several appeals were made to then Georgia Governor John Slaton, who ultimately commuted Frank's sentence to life imprisonment.
- Leo Frank was lynched by a mob on August 17, 1915, after being kidnapped from the prison where he was being held for the murder of Mary Phagan.
- The aftermath of Leo Frank's lynching had far-reaching consequences, both locally and nationally. In the immediate aftermath, the Jewish community in Atlanta and the rest of the country were outraged by the lynching of one of their own, and many saw it as a reflection of the antisemitism that was rampant at the time.
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