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• Thanksgiving Pulpit Used to Attack Suffrage

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  The Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church took the opportunity of his Thanksgiving Day sermon yesterday to attack the campaign for womens right to vote, by attempting to denigrate some of those who support it.
  4 days ago

• The Lynching

  
  Kentuckyanna true news — Authority: 152
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  6 days ago

• James Cone’s Lecture Bears Strange Fruit in Fragmented Bodies Symposium

  
  The Bi-College News Online — Authority: 140
  By Lawrence Miller On Thursday night in Sharpless Auditorium, Dr. James Cone delivered the Keynote Address in the Fragmented Bodies of American Lynching symposium. The symposium, which was held over the course of Friday morning and afternoon, brought together academics and theologians from across the country to talk ...
  1 week ago

• Recreating a Lynching, Part I

  
  RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY — Authority: 125
  Kelly Baker In Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television , Matthew Bernstein, a professor of Film Studies at Emory, examines the retelling of the Leo Frank trial (1913) and Frank’s subsequent lynching (1915) in film and on television. (For a quick primer on the Leo Frank ...
  1 week ago

• Book Review: And the Dead Shall Rise

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 432
  In the same year that Congress enacted the income tax code a thirteen year old Atlanta factory worker named Mary Phagan was found dead in the basement of the National Pencil Company.Ever since I saw the television miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan back in 1987, the case of Leo Frank (pictured at right at trial ...
  1 week ago

• Caruso Is Back and So Is the Met

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  The Metropolitan Opera opened its season brilliantly last night, with Enrico Caruso back and in excellent voice as Enzo in "La Gioconda" under the direction of Arturo Toscanini.
  2 weeks ago

• Guile and Militia Prevent a Third Cairo, Ill., Lynching

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  The guile of police and deputy sheriffs, and then the arrival of the militia forces, prevented the Cairo, Ill., mob yesterday from seizing a second African-American, Arthur Alexander, after it lynched Will James a day earlier.
  2 weeks ago

• One Lynching in Cairo, Ill.; Then, Another

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  A huge mob in Cairo, Ill., perpetrated two savage, brutal lynchings yesterday, first of an African-American, Will James, and then of a white photographer, Henry Salzner.
  2 weeks ago

• SMH’s Strange Fruit

  
  John Lacey Gets Personal — Authority: 116
  The Sydney Morning Herald, the apparent ‘Newspaper Of The Year’, has featured a section on its website about Tiger Woods’ visit to Australia… with a most disturbing headline (apparently cached by Google). The headline read: Fans swing from branches to see Tiger If you don’t see what is wrong with this ...
  2 weeks ago

• 1909: Will James, “the Froggie”, lynched in Cairo

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 469
  One hundred years ago today, Will James was lynched as a murderer in Cairo, Illinois. “The Frog” or “The Froggie” was a black man implicated in the murder of a white girl, captured in nearby Belknap and taken to the most prominent square in the city and strung up. The rope broke and the man was riddled ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gustaf Mahler Unveils a New Philharmonic

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  Gustav Mahler, the new conductor of a wholly reorganized New York Philharmonic Society, opened the orchestras 68th season last night at Carnegie Hall with works by Beethoven, Richard Strauss and Franz Liszt.
  3 weeks ago

• Leo Frank, 96-Year-Old Lynching Still Relevant Today

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 155
  Filed under: News There are so many lessons to be taken from the story of Leo Frank : Good things dont happen when people stand by silently while injustice is committed; racism and xenophobia only lead to death and destruction; and facing our past is vital for a brighter future. Frank was the Jewish manager ...
  3 weeks ago

• Supremes Punt, but Stevens AND Scalia Agree: It’s Time to Clarify whether Feds Can Still Prosecute Old Civil Rights Crimes

  
  The Criminal Lawyer — Authority: 110
  Way back in May 1964, in the very small town of Meadville, Mississippi, two black teenagers were hitchhiking down the road when James Ford Seale drove up. Seale, a member of the KKK, told them he was a revenooer looking for moonshiners, and told the boys to get in his car. He then drove them off into the forest. A ...
  3 weeks ago

• PBS Documentary | Century-old Murder Case, Leo Frank Lynching

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 605
  The Case of Leo Frank Leo and Lucille Frank during his trial, 1915 (Photo from Wikimedia.org) Tonight showcases a very contradicting documentary about the case of Leo Frank , and you won’t need quick cash to see it. The documentary will be aired tonight on PBS. Leo Frank was a Cornell-educated Jewish ...
  3 weeks ago

• GA - Murder case, Leo Frank lynching live on (We never learn from history, we repeat it!)

  
  Sex Offender Issues — Authority: 151
  View the article here Leo Frank - Wikipedia 11/02/2009 By Jessica Ravitz Atlanta (CNN) -- Turn back time, more than 90 years, to a cold case that wont gather dust. Its a classic whodunit, starting with the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl and ending in a lynching . It was grist for a prosecutors ...
  3 weeks ago

• Leo Frank documentary video on PBS stirs up 100 year old murder case

  
  Deconlabel — Authority: 444
  Leo Frank documentary video on PBSA murder trial case that is almost 100 years old still remains a mystery, because Leo Frank, who was convicted for the murder isn’t the man who committed the murder. Leo Frank was later lynched for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan.Leo Frank was sentenced to die for Mary ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mary Phagan

  
  TrendPK.com — Authority: 462
  Mary Phagan: On April 27th, 1913, the bound and badly beaten body of thirteen year old Mary Phagan was found in the basement of the Atlanta, Georgia pencil factory where she was an employee. She was found with a noose around her neck and had been sexually assaulted. Her body had been found by the factory’s night ...
  3 weeks ago

• Leo Frank story

  
  wisnuaji dot com — Authority: 448
  Leo Frank was accused of raping and killing Mary Phagan. Frank was a Jew and Phagan was a child worker, 13 years old, in the Atlanta pencil factory that Frank was in charge of. Frank was a man who was white, northern, Jewish and an industrialist. These qualities were opposed by the locals who embraced [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Leo Frank and Mary Phagan Story

  
  MVMAG - Daily Hot News Update — Authority: 125
  Leo Frank which retells a true century-old story of a murder trial racial stereotype and a lynching premieres Monday. Its a classic who done it starting with the rape and The documentary The People v. Leo Frank is a Jewish northerner who in 1913. At the center of it all was Leo Frank a northern Jew who moved to ...
  3 weeks ago

• The People Vs. Leo Frank

  
  RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY — Authority: 125
  Kelly Baker The lynching of Leo Frank remains a subject of historical and popular interest. Frank, a Northern Jew, was accused of the rape and murder of Mary Phagan. For crime show buffs, the case contains mishandled evidence, questionable testimony, and good old fashioned prejudice. Modern audiences might have a ...
  3 weeks ago

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