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Unspeakable Crime The Prosecution & Persecution of Leo Frank

by Elaine Marie Alphin

ISBN13: 9780822589440
ISBN10: 0822589443

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In 1913, Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old employee at an Atlanta pencil factory was found murdered. Police suspected Leo Frank, who was a northerner and a Jew. His trial captured national attention. A mob stormed the prison where Frank was being held and lynched him. Leo Frank thus became the only known Jew lynched in American history.

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ISBN:: 9780822589440
Binding:: Hardcover
Publication date:: 03/01/2010
Publisher:: Carolrhoda Books
Height:: 10.26 in.
Width:: 7.38 in.
Thickness:: .62 in.
LCCN:: 2008042300
Age Range:: 12-UP and up
Grade Range:: - Up
Number of Units:: 1
UPC Code:: 9780822589440
Author:: Elaine Marie Alphin
Subject:: Phagan, Mary
Subject:: Murder - Georgia - Atlanta
Subject:: Crime - True Crime

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