Leo Frank
Overview
Leo Max Frank was a Jewish-American factory superintendent whose hanging
in 1915 by a lynch mob of prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia
drew attention to antisemitism in the United States
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The superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, Frank was convicted on August 26, 1913, of the murder one of his factory workers, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. She had been strangled on April 26, and was found dead in the factory cellar the next day.
Hanging
Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain...
in 1915 by a lynch mob of prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia
Marietta, Georgia
Marietta is a city located in central Cobb County, Georgia, United States, and is its county seat.As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 56,579, making it one of metro Atlanta's largest suburbs...
drew attention to antisemitism in the United States
Antisemitism in the United States
Jewish Americans have flourished since colonial times in what became the United States, which before the Second World War had a general history of racism directed to non-Christian, non-northwest European groups. Antisemitism in the United States has however lacked the extent and severity of its...
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The superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, Frank was convicted on August 26, 1913, of the murder one of his factory workers, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. She had been strangled on April 26, and was found dead in the factory cellar the next day.
