The Leo Frank Case The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 7
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Published on May 17, 2021
WE HEAR A LOT today about people “playing the race card†— using race unjustly in a dispute, or as a moral bludgeon to obscure the facts. In 1913 Atlanta, the Leo Frank defense team played the race card — and in a very big way. Interestingly, the pro-Frank forces used race in a way that most people would find grossly unacceptable today: crudely attacking prosecution witness James Conley, a black man, in open court and on the record as a “dirty,†“lying,†“thieving†“n**ger†— and characterizing the sex killing of Mary Phagan as a “Negro crime†of which “white man†Leo Frank, president of the Atlanta B’nai B’rith, would be — they insinuated — “incapable.â€
Original Article Here:
https://theamericanmercury.org/2018/06/the-leo-frank-case-the-lynching-of-a-guilty-man-part-7/
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