In 1913 a woman named Mary Phagan was raped and murdered at the National Pencil Company in Georgia where she had worked
In 1913 a woman named Mary Phagan was raped and murdered at the National Pencil Company in Georgia where she had worked. Leo Frank knew her and managed this company. After an investigation, Leo Frank was fingered as the culprit behind the murder. He was found guilty in a court case and that was that. Turns out the trial and investigation were both flawed. Imagine that? So Frank's sentence was commuted. This resulted in public outrage thanks in large part to media sensationalism. Frank was kidnapped and lynched by a mob in 1915. Keep in mind this was 1910s Jim Crow America. How many black men were wrongly convicted based on race? Leo Frank was convicted for a few reasons. He was Jewish and he was a Northerner. That alone made him a suspect. Historians and researchers agree and have agreed since the 1950s, that Frank is innocent. You could write a book on the investigation and trial issues but I won’t do that here. Simply put we’d be here all day and you can all read abou...