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Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American lynching victim convicted in 1913 of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee in a factory in Atlanta, Georgia where he was the superintendent. Frank's trial, conviction, and unsuccessful appeals attracted national attention.
Dramatizing the true story of Leo Frank, a factory manager who was convicted of the murder a 13-year-old girl, a factory worker named Mary Phagan, in Atlanta in 1913. His trial was sensational and controversial, and at its end, Frank was convicted of murdering Mary Phagan and sentenced to death by hanging.
Leo Frank's lynching on the morning of August 17, 1915. [1] There are multiple recorded incidents of the lynching of American Jews occurring between 1868 and 1964 in the American South. In 1868 in Tennessee, Samuel Bierfield became the first American Jew to be lynched. The lynching of Leo Frank is the most well-known case in American history. [2]
The Frank family and four other Jews hid in a secret annex behind a bookshelf in an Amsterdam building from July 1942 until their discovery by the Gestapo in August 1944. They were deported to ...
In 1915, Leo Frank, an American Jew, was lynched near Atlanta, Georgia. In 1913, Frank had been convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old girl who was employed by his pencil factory. A series of appeals were filed on behalf of Frank, but all of them were denied.
Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown.The musical is a dramatization of the 1913 trial and imprisonment, and 1915 lynching, of Jewish American Leo Frank in Georgia.
Frank Auerbach, the renowned figurative painter who fled Nazi Germany as a child, ... Auerbach narrowly escaped being killed during the Holocaust. If he had not been evacuated, aged seven, on a ...
Frank Mosley, 20, is also known by his stage name, Lil Frank, and his music attracted more than 250,000 followers on Instagram. Local rapper Lil Frank charged in hit-and-run crash that killed ...