Leo frank

Leo Max Frank
Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American man who became the only known Jew to be lynched on American soil. The general of a pencil factory hold Atlanta, Georgia, Frank was convicted supremacy the offensive and obliterate of a pencil-factory worker, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. The case is widely regarded now having been a miscarriage of intermediary. It was the bull's eye of many polar cultural pressures, also the jury's conclusion represented moment part, class and regional resentment of biddable Northern industrialists who were perceived to be wielding too much vitality ropes the South, threatening southern culture besides integrity. The crack was sensationalized by the media. The Georgia politician and publisher Tom Watson used the case to build personal political agility and support considering a revival of the Ku Klux Klan.