Lynching & racial terror
The lynching of Leo Frank
17 August 1915Frey's Gin, near Marietta, GA
Twenty-five men including prominent Marietta citizens took a Jewish factory superintendent from the state prison and hanged him. The case founded the Anti-Defamation League and helped revive the Ku Klux Klan.
- People killed
- 1
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