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Leo M. Frank collections
Materials on Leo M. Frank, the superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, who was convicted of the murder of factory worker Mary Phagan in 1913; then lynched by a mob in Marietta in 1915 after Governor John M. Slaton commuted Frank's death sentence to life imprisonment.
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Creator
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915
Date of Original
1878/1988
Subject
Acculturation--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Relations with Jews
American newspapers
Antisemitism--Georgia
Antisemitism--Georgia--Atlanta
Antisemitism--United States
Antisemitism--Southern States
Appellate courts--United States
Appellate procedure
Atlanta (Ga.)--History
Attorney and client
Authors, Yiddish--United States
Clergymen--Georgia--Atlanta
Collier's (Magazine)
Cornell University--Alumni and alumnae
Criminal law
Due process of law
English language--Foreign words and phrases--Yiddish
Executive power--Georgia
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915--Family
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915--Trials, litigation, etc.
Georgia--Ethnic relations
Georgia--History
Georgia. Court of Appeals
Georgia. Superior Court (Fulton County)
Georgia. Supreme Court
Governors--Georgia
Governors--Georgia--Correspondence
Governors--Georgia--History--20th century
Habeas corpus
Habeas corpus--Georgia
Investigative reporting
Jewish businesspeople
Jewish diaspora
Jewish engineers
Jewish ethics
Jewish families--Georgia--Atlanta
Jewish farmers--Georgia--Atlanta
Jewish lawyers
Jewish marriage customs and rites
Jewish merchants
Jewish press--United States--History--20th century
Jewish way of life
Jewish women
Jews--Cultural assimilation
Jews--Georgia
Jews--Georgia--Atlanta
Jews--Georgia--History
Jews--Identity
Jews--Persecutions--Georgia--History--20th century
Jews--Persecutions--Southern States--History--20th century
Jews--Persecutions--United States--History--20th century
Jews--Social life and customs
Jews--Southern States
Jews--Southern States--History
Jews--Southern States--History--20th century
Jews--United States--History
Journalism--Georgia
Journalism--Georgia--Atlanta
Journalism--United States
Judaism--Customs and practices
Judges--Georgia--Correspondence
Judges--Georgia--History--20th century
Judgments
Judicial process--United States
Jurisdiction
Jury
Justice, Administration of
Law
Law reports, digests, etc.
Lawyers
Libraries--Special collections--Jews
Lynching--Georgia--Marietta
Mass media and criminal justice
Murder
Murder in mass media
Murder--Georgia--Atlanta
Newspapers
Pardon--Georgia
Physicians
Prisoners--Georgia--Social conditions
Prisons--Georgia--Milledgeville
Rabbis
Rabbis--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Sensationalism in journalism--Georgia
Sensationalism in journalism--Georgia--Atlanta
Sensationalism in journalism--United States
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Trial transcripts
Trials
Trials (Murder)
Trials (Murder)--Georgia--Atlanta
United States--Ethnic relations
United States--History
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment
United States. District Court (Georgia : Northern District)
United States. Supreme Court
United States. Supreme Court--Officials and employees
Writ of error
Yiddish language
People
Alexander, Henry A. (Henry Aaron), 1874-1967
Alexander, Marian Kline, 1895-1984
Arnold, R. R. (Reuben Rose), 1868-1960
Brandon, Morris, Sr., 1862-1940
Cahan, Abraham, 1860-1951
Carter, Annie Maud
Conley, James (Jim), 1886-ca. 1952
Connolly, C. P. (Christopher Powell), 1863-1935
Creen, William
Dorsey, Hugh Manson, 1871-1948
Frank, Lucille Selig, 1888-1957
Frank, Rachel Jacobs, 1859-1925
Freeman, Emma Clarke
Grice, Warren, 1875-
Haas, Herbert J., 1884-1953
Haas, Leonard, Sr., 1880-1969
Haas, Leopold, 1877-1958
Hall, Corinthia
Henson, Allen Lumpkin
Joseph Rucker and Clarinda Pendleton Lamar papers
Lamar, Joseph Rucker, 1857-1916
Lanford, N. A. (Newport Alonzo), 1861-1930
Lee, Newt
Liebman, Bernard S
Mangum, C. Wheeler
Mann, Alonzo M. (Alonzo McLendon), Jr., 1897-1985
Marshall, Louis, 1856-1929
Marx, David M., 1872-1962
Marx, David M., 1872-1962
May, Isaac, 1862-1953
Ochs, Adolph S. (Adolph Simon), 1858-1935
Peeples, Henry C. (Henry Cabaniss), 1857-1937
Phagan, Mary, d. 1913
Pitney, Mahlon, 1858-1924
Roan, Leonard Strickland, 1849-1915
Roberts, Wiley B., 1853-1934
Rosser, Luther Z., 1857-1928
Schiff, Herbert G. Sr., 1894-1938
Schwartz, Dale M., 1940-2021
Selig, Josephine Cohen, 1864-1933
Sherborne, Robert, 1950-
Slaton, John M.
Smith, William (-1949)
Smithline, Jeffrey S., 1974-
Stern, Marian Frank, 1886-1948
Stern, Otto, 1882-1963
Thompson, Jerry, 1940-
Watson, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1856-1922
Wittenstein, Charles F., 1928-2013
Location
United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Baldwin County, Milledgeville, 33.08014, -83.2321
United States, Georgia, Cobb County, Marietta, 33.9526, -84.54993
United States, Georgia, Floyd County, Rome, 34.25704, -85.16467
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Fort McPherson, 33.70733, -84.43354
United States, Georgia, Rabun County, Mountain City, 34.91815, -83.38544
United States, Massachusetts, Berkshire County, North Adams, 42.70092, -73.10871
United States, Michigan, St. Louis County, Duluth
United States, New York, Kings County, Brooklyn, 40.6501, -73.94958
United States, New York, Tompkins County, Ithaca, 42.44063, -76.49661
United States, Virginia, 37.54812, -77.44675
Medium
family papers
correspondence
photocopies|affidavits
records
legal documents
transcripts
letterheads
photocopies
depositions
books
reports
briefs (legal documents)
transcripts
extracts (partial documents)
synagogue records
diaries
school records
newsletters
clippings (information artifacts)
letters (correspondence)
invitations
marriage certificates
diplomas
school records
Type
Still Image, Text
Description
Materials on Leo M. Frank, the superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, who was convicted of the murder of factory worker Mary Phagan in 1913. Frank was lynched by a mob in Marietta in 1915 after Governor John M. Slaton commuted Frank's death sentence to life imprisonment. The Leo M. Frank materials span several archival collections in the Ida Pearl and Joseph Cuba Archive for Southern Jewish History at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. They are collocated inside this single digital collection.
Language
eng
Holding Institution
William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
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