Leo M. Frank collection, 1913-1966, (bulk 1913-1915).

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Leo M. Frank collection, 1913-1966, (bulk 1913-1915).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70947156

Correspondence, reports, articles and recollections describing the conviction and subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, 1913-1915; together with materials pertaining to Leonard Dinnerstein's book, The Leo Frank Case, 1963-1966.

2 linear ft.

The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives

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The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives

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Dinnerstein, Leonard

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Frank, Leo, 1884-1915

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Leo Frank, a Jewish Atlanta businessman and Superintendent and Vice President of the National Pencil Factory, Atlanta, Georgia, was born 17 April 1884, in Paris, Texas, and died 17 August 1915, in Marietta, Georgia. Frank was sentenced to death by hanging (1913) for the murder of Mary Phagan, an employee he supervised at the National Pencil Factory. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment (July 1915) because of doubt by some trial officials as to his guilt. Frank was abducted by a mob (Au...