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Leo Frank: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Steve Oney, And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank (2003); Albert S. Lindemann, The Jew Accused: Three Anti-Semitic Affairs (Dreyfus, Beilis, Frank), 1894–1915 (1991); Leonard Dinnerstein, The Leo Frank Case, rev. ed. (2008); Jeffrey Melnick, Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South (2000).

Aaron Surrain

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  • Aaron Surrain
    Aaron Surrain is writing an opera about the murder and memory of Mary Phagan.

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  • Mark Cohen

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: American Jewish Archives - The Lynching of Leo Frank. Dec 27, 2024
Add new Web site: Georgia Historical Society - Leo Frank Lynching. Nov 15, 2024
Anniversary information added. Aug 13, 2024
Add new Web site: Michigan State University - Department of History - The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary Populism. Aug 09, 2024
Add new Web site: American Heritage - The fate of Leo Frank. Jun 14, 2024
First paragraph modernization. May 08, 2024
Anniversary information added. Apr 13, 2024
Add new Web site: Internet Archive - The Leo Frank Case - The Lynching of a Guilty Man. Nov 02, 2023
Add new Web site: Famous Trials - Leo Frank Trial (1913). Mar 10, 2023
Add new Web site: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Leo Frank Case. Nov 28, 2016
Add new Web site: Leo Frank Case Archive - Introduction: Leo Frank’s Life Summarized and Distilled to the Essentials. Nov 28, 2016
Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Biography of Leo Frank. Nov 24, 2016
Article revised. Aug 11, 2016
Corrected the name of Frank's uncle and the location of the Anti-Defamation League's founding; removed the size of a mob because of differing claims among sources. Apr 20, 2016
New bibliography added. Jul 02, 2015
New article added. Jul 02, 2015
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