- Collection:
- McDuffie Museum Collection
- Title:
- Jeffersonian, 1915 September 2
- Creator:
- Watson, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1856-1922
- Date of Original:
- 1915-09-02
- Subject:
- Antisemitism--Georgia
Lynching--Georgia--Marietta
Ku Klux Klan (19th century) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Cobb County, Marietta, 33.9526, -84.54993
United States, Georgia, McDuffie County, Thomson, 33.47069, -82.50457 - Medium:
- newspapers
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- September 2, 1915 issue of The Jeffersonian, a weekly newspaper published by Thomas E. Watson's Jeffersonian Publishing Company from 1907 to 1917. This issue focuses on the trial of Leo Frank, a Jewish engineer and superintendent at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta, Georgia. Frank was convicted of murdering 13 year-old Mary Phagan, a factory employee, and was extrajudicially executed by a civilian mob in Marietta, Georgia on August 17, 1915. The paper takes an ardently anti-Semitic stance in defending Frank's conviction and execution, which was condemned by The New York Times, the Chicago Examiner, and other newspapers around the nation. Thomas E. Watson (1856-1922) was a politician, attorney, publisher and author from Georgia. Watson was elected to the Georgia General Assembly (1882), the U.S. House of Representatives (1890), and the U.S. Senate (1920). Nominated by the Populist Party as its vice presidential candidate in 1896, he is remembered for being a voice for Populism and the disenfranchised, and later in life, as a southern demagogue and bigot. 11 images.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:mcdm_mcd_mcd0001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/mcdm/mcd/do:mcd0001
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- McDuffie Museum
- Rights:
-
