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Leo Frank
Marietta, Georgia
August 17, 1915
A Jew, for the murder of "little Mary Phagan" prompted the
formation of the anti-defamation league and the resurrection of the Ku Klux
Klan. Frank was convicted and sentenced to a prison farm. Twenty-five men
described in this account as some of Marietta's, "best
citizens" clad in low hats and goggles, yanked Frank from a hospital
bed. Frank was recovering from a knife wound to his throat. He was driven
to an oak tree, noosed and a table was kicked out beneath him. Postcards
were sold locally and continued to sell for years after. In the mob were
two former Superior Court justices, a sheriff, and a clergyman. Leo Frank
was pardoned in 1985 posthumously.

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