Showing posts with label lynching. Show all posts
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Monday, November 2, 2009

leo frank

leo frank
The center was all Leo Frank, a Jew who moved north of Atlanta want to monitor the National Pencil Factory. When the body of Mary Phagan, the black child was found in the cellar, law enforcement has focused on Frank.
Considered one of the most sensational trials of the early 20th century, the Frank case seemed to press every hot-button issue of the time: North vs. South, black vs. white, Jew vs. Christian, industrial vs. agrarian. In the years since, it has inspired numerous books and films, TV programs, plays, musicals and songs. It has fueled legal discussions, spawned a traveling exhibition and driven public forums.
"Leo Frank was a good boy ole South. It was different, and not ashamed of what different," said Ben Loeterman, his new documentary, "The People v. Leo Frank," air on Monday with PBS. "The test for us as a society are not necessarily how we treat the best among us, but how we handle the most controversial."
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