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The case of Leo Frank is not dead!

The class struggle behind the story of lynching in 1915 his remains tragically relevant.

On 17 August 1915, Leo Frank, a Cornell-educated Jewish industrialist, was lynched in suburban Atlanta. The atrocity was the culmination of a terrible conflict, which began in 1913 with the murder of a child worker named Mary Phagan, who worked for a few cents per hours in the Atlanta National Pencil Factory. Frank, the director of the factory, was convicted of the crime and sentenced to death, but he always maintained his innocence. He appealed his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, losing all time, so the Georgia Governor John Slaton commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. The decision of the anger in the general population, a group organized by a judge of the Court Superior, the son of a U.S. senator and former governor Frank retired from a state prison and kept hanging from an oak tree.

Frank lynching seems Another incident being an American, a gray-bearded veteran of the Civil War and Jim Crow, the Model T and ragtime. Woodrow Wilson was president. "The Birth of a Nation" played in theaters. The story, however, remains alive. During the fall, "Parade", the crowd Alfred Uhry musical based on the subject have been preparing for the Mark Taper Forum. In November 2008, the program for KCET, "The People vs. Leo Frank" the first feature documentary to explore the issue.

There are several reasons why the case of Frank continues to receive attention. First, the murder of Mary Phagan and the lynching of Leo Frank's crimes are so confusing as Arthur Conan Doyle ever invented. Strange Notes, racial paradoxes (white jury convicted the plant manager in the testimony a witness in black) and a complex plot played a role. But ultimately, the story is still relevant and interesting, because the conflict at the base of hostilities red-state/blue-state prefigures today.

The raw material for the class struggle was, of course, the Home – a charming young Southern girl found dead in a company run by a Jew from the North. It was not until after Frank's conviction that the material exploded. At the urging of the rabbi of the synagogue in Atlanta in the reform, a national campaign to exonerate the convicted person has been opened Adolph Ochs, publisher of The New York Times, and AD Lasker, the advertising genius behind the Sunkist orange juice and Lucky Strike cigarettes. They believed that Frank had been processed as if it pursues.

To call attention to what he regarded as an injustice, Ochs Times launched the first – and so far only — journalism of the Crusade. Over a period of 18 months, the newspaper has published dozens of publishers require not only a new trial for Frank, but dozens of articles on their behalf. For its part, Lasker orchestrated public relations gimmicks and called William Burns, the detective found the attack of 1910, Los Angeles Times, raised new tests. Although Ochs and were convinced that anti-Semitism Lasker had poisoned the view of Frank, they and their followers in New York and other urban areas do not take into consider how their efforts are in South or in the heart of neighborhoods.

None of those involved in the deaths of Frank has never been convicted or even charged. (The prosecutor chief of the county where the incident occurred which helped.) Impact of polarizing the issue has been felt almost immediately. The day before Thanksgiving 1915, few months later Frank was hanged, the Ku Klux Klan held its first modern era of fire cross over Stone Mountain, a few miles east of Atlanta. (Three members of the lynching party were present.) Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League, which was founded in 1913, took the fight against religious intolerance seriously.

Frank, however, was more than racism and antisemitism. It was also in the perceptions of conflict in the nation and have-nots, the chasm between people who appear in Handel's things and feel no voice. Although it is doubtful that a crowd could be in a state prison in 2009 and Lynch, a prisoner is not difficult imagine a scenario in which something bad happened. In a time of crisis and escalation of endemic unemployment, bank bailouts and traders, not the end of the strong relationship Goldman Sachs, the saga of Frank says as much about current events than history does.

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