Injustice kills another Jew

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Leo Frank in the article "The Fate of Leo Frank" by Leonard Dinnerstein did

not receive a fair trial. I believe that the ghost of Leo Frank should haunt forever

the families of those who convicted and lynched him. Prejudice convicted Leo

Frank, not the evidence presented at his trial.

In July, 1913, Leo Frank, a Georgian pencil manufacturing company

co-owner and manager, was indicted by a grand jury for the murder of Mary

Phangan, a thirteen year old girl from Marietta, Georgia employed in Frank's

Phagan was on her way to the Confederacy Memorial Day parade when she

stopped by the factory to collect her wages. She did not arrive at the parade. The

next series of events took four weeks to try in the Georgia court

combination of the three proved lethal to Leo Frank. He was failed by the system,

The principle witness at Frank's trial was Jim Conley, a janitor at the pencil

and lynched by a mob that was angered that the Governor of Georgia commuted

word of his sentence commutation was let out. A group of locals raided the farm

Prejudice was, I believe, the deciding factor in the case of Leo Frank. And as long

of Atlanta were prejudiced against an industrialist because factories and industry

the jury. They did not ask for a change of venue for a trial which was, before it

Approximate Word count = 519
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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