- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Frontispiece from Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine
- Publisher:
- Watson's jeffersonian magazine. Atlanta, Ga.: T.E. Watson, 1915.
- Date of Original:
- 1915
- Subject:
- Jews--Georgia--Atlanta
Lynching--Georgia--Atlanta
Victims of hate crimes--Georgia--Atlanta
Antisemitism--Georgia--Atlanta
Murder victims--Georgia--Atlanta
Mobs--Georgia--Atlanta
Justice in art
Women--Georgia--Atlanta
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- frontispieces (illustrations)
drawings (visual works) - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The frontispiece from the March 1915 issue of Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine is entitled "The Shame of Georgia" and accompanies an article called "A Full Review of the Leo Frank Case." Frank, a Jew, was convicted of killing a thirteen-year-old and hanged by a lynch mob after Georgia governor John M. Slaton commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. Many in the Jewish community and beyond believed that anti-Semitism played a role in Frank's conviction and subsequent death.
Image of a frontispiece from the March 1915 issue of Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine, which is entitled "The Shame of Georgia." A figure clad in dark clothes and labeled "Mob Rule" leans toward Leo Frank with an outstretched hand. A female figure representing justice stands between them, and she attempts to stop the man from attacking Frank. The illustration accompanied an article called "A Full Review of the Leo Frank Case."
The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. A Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company, which he managed. Before the lynching of Frank two years later, the case became known throughout the nation. The degree of anti-Semitism involved in Frank's conviction and subsequent lynching is difficult to assess, but it was enough of a factor to have inspired Jews, and others, throughout the country to protest the conviction of an innocent man. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/jeffersonian-publishing-company/m-8359/
- Rights Holder:
- From Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine, 1915
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-8359
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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