100 Years Since the Death of Leo Frank | Britannica
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August 17 marks the 100th anniversary of the lynching of Leo Frank, an event that spurred both the formation of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Frank, a Jew living in Georgia, was a factory superintendent who was convictedby almost all modern accounts wronglyof sexually assaulting and murdering a 13-year-old girl in 1913. His trial was fraught with specious testimony and circumstantial evidence, yet he was still convicted and sentenced to death. His sentence was later commuted to life in prison, which spurred a mob (that included local elected officials) to break into the prison in which he was being held and to lynch him in the hometown of his purported victim.
Franks saga was national news, and the fallout from his lynching inspired the creation of the ADL, which eventually won Frank a posthumous pardon, and the renewal of the KKK, which was re-formed out of a hate group that was named after the murdered girl.
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100 Years Since the Death of Leo Frank | Britannica
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