Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South by Jeffrey Melnick
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Overview: An analysis of the Leo Frank case as a measure of the complexities characterizing the relationship between African Americans and Jews in America
In 1915 Leo Frank, a Northern Jew, was lynched in Georgia. He had been convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, a young white woman who worked in the Atlanta pencil factory managed by Frank. In a tumultuous trial in 1913 Frank’s main accuser was Jim Conley, an African American employee in the factory. Was Frank guilty?
In our time a martyr’s aura falls over Frank as a victim of religious and regional bigotry. The unending controversy has inspired debates, movies, books, songs, and theatrical productions. Among the creative works focused on the case are a ballad by Fiddlin’ John Carson, David Mamet’s novel The Old Religion in 1997, and Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s musical Parade in 1998.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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