City Beat (5) Nov 16, 2008
The Baldwin-Wallace College Music Theatre Program presents Parade, a musical about the unfair 1913 Atlanta murder trial of Jewish New Yorker Leo Frank, through Nov. 23. Directed by Scott Plate. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
50 years since Temple bombing Oct 11, 2008
Few had forgotten the awful events of 1915, when Temple member Leo Frank was lynched by a mob and the crime went unpunished and seemingly was tolerated. A unifying force. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The Highwayman: Light and shadow on Stone Mountain Sep 20, 2008
Incited by D.W. Griffith's Klan-glorifying film The Birth of a Nation, and by the lynching of Leo Frank, who was convicted in the murder of Mary Phagan, a group of robed and hooded men met at Stone Mountain to create a new incarnation of the Klan. They were led by William J. Simmons, and included a group calling itself the Knights of Mary Phagan. (The Delaware County Times, PA)
Leo Frank lynching comes back to life Jul 19, 2008
1915 lynching of Leo Frank comes back to life TV documentary about notorious Georgia case to be screened in Atlanta ... Leo Frank, murder suspect of Mary Phagan ... Director Ben Loeterman (left) and Will Janowitz, who plays Leo Frank, look over story boards on the set near Griffin. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Queens Historic Groups Take Collections Online Jul 18, 2008
Friday July 18, 2008. The last Republican and first Jewish Queens District Attorney, Nat Hentel, right, shaking hands with City Councilman Sid Lazar in 1970. (Queens Chronicle, NY)
Survivor, now in Cobb, recalls Holocaust Mar 15, 2008
"Seeking Justice: The Leo Frank Case Revisited" recounts the racially charged and tragic events surrounding the murder of Mary Phagan in 1913 and the lynching of Leo Frank two years later in Cobb County. National and local media covered the murders, which remain officially unsolved and controversial nearly a century later. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
File photo In 1913, Leo Frank, was convicted of murdering 13-year-old Mary Phagan. Two years later, when his death sentence was commuted, a mob abducted Frank from prison, drove him to Marietta, where Phagan had lived, and hung him in an oak grove. A state historical marker was erected Friday at the place of Frank's death. • Story Mar 8, 2008
New marker will remember lynching of Marietta's past State historical marker, near Roswell Road and Frey's Gin Court, to remember the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank ... A group many wearing no place for hate stickers met in Marietta today to remember the place where Leo Frank was lynched nine decades ago. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Leo Frank exhibit Feb 9, 2008
Artifacts tell the story in "Seeking Justice," the first major exhibition about the notorious Leo Frank case, opening Sunday at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Midtown ... The Atlanta Constitution shows Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was convicted of killing 13-year-old Mary Phagan ... IF YOU GO "Seeking Justice: The Leo Frank Case Revisited" Exhibit: Through Dec. 31 at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Exploring Jewish-America Jan 5, 2008
" Or so the advertisements for the shortening said. Grubin has done his homework and enlisted dozens of talking heads to support and help explicate his research. Structured chronologically, "The Jewish Americans" covers early immigration, population growth, the labor movement and the Yiddish theater on the first night; the second focuses on the American response to the Holocaust, while also drawing portraits of Irving Berlin, Louis Brandeis and accused Atlanta child-killer Leo Frank; and, the... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Cobb celebrates 175th birthday Nov 29, 2007
Leo Frank and his wife listen to testimony during his trial in 1913 ... 1915: Leo Frank lynching. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
County Lines for November 15, 2007 Nov 15, 2007
Snijdewind was taken to Marian Medical Center with complaint of pain, and his passenger, 28-year-old Leo Frank Sizemore, was not injured. Lopez did not have information on the cause of the crash. (Santa Maria Times)
Theatre in the Square sweeps local awards Nov 6, 2007
The score by the Tony Award winning composer of the Leo Frank saga Parade is lush and lovely, the material is smart and comically buoyant, and the chronology is counterclockwise, so that we see the romance of successful novelist Jamie Wellerstein and his shiksa goddess /actress/wife Catherine Hiatt fall apart before it begins. Time, it seems, is not on their side. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The miners who swapped coal for art Oct 1, 2007
Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry have dramatised the case of Leo Frank, a factory manager in Atlanta convicted - probably wrongly - of the murder of a young girl in 1913. Parade challenges the verdict and accuses the Atlanta citizens of anti-Semitism. (The Observer)
Jewish museum gets Leo Frank items Sep 27, 2007
Museum gets 'phenomenal' Leo Frank memorabilia ... A series of photos, a stack of letters: pieces of history forever linked by the trial and lynching of Leo Frank, an Atlantan whose only crime was probably living while Jewish ... Mary Phagan worked for National Pencil Co., which Leo Frank managed. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Rob Ashford's journey: From dance steps to leader of the band Aug 28, 2007
"Parade," like "Caroline," is set in the American South and tackles weighty fare - specifically, the story of Leo Frank, a Jew who nearly a century ago was lynched in Georgia following the murder of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old factory girl. The anti-Semitic bloodlust of the post-Confederate South might seem an unusual topic for a cast of 15 Britons to grapple with. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Today in History August 17 Aug 17, 2007
lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank, whod maintained his innocence, was pardoned by the state of Georgia in 1986. (MSNBC -- Race)
Confederate Cemetery to be spruced up Aug 3, 2007
Her murder led to the conviction of the factory's boss, Leo Frank, who was lynched by an anti-Semitic mob of Mariettans even though the governor at the time had commuted his sentence to life imprisonment for lack of evidence. The Marietta City Cemetery also contains the graves of Daniel W. Blair, a Superior Court judge and one of the leading foes of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia, and the Rev. Thomas Milton Allen, a former slave who was a leader of Marietta's African-American community. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
NEWS FROM THE THEATRE WORLD Jul 23, 2007
Parade is based on the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory owner falsely convicted of murdering a girl in Atlanta in 1913. Jason Robert Brown is the composer and writer of Songs For A New World, The Last Five Years, Parade, 13, and the upcoming Broadway production of Honeymoon In Vegas. (Suite101.com)
Mary Ellen Solt, 86; poet, poetry critic Jun 29, 2007
She met her future husband, Leo Frank Solt, at teachers college. The couple married in 1946 and had two children. (Los Angeles Times)
He hits the right notes in 'Parade' Jun 6, 2007
Barker's Conley is one of the more mysterious characters in "Parade," a musical retelling of the real-life story of Leo Frank, an innocent man convicted in 1913 of the brutal murder of a young girl working in the factory he managed in Atlanta. The Tony Award-winning musical, which plays at the Roberts Studio in the Boston Center for the Arts through June 16, captures the mob mentality, wounded Southern pride, fear of outsiders, and lust for vengeance fueling the witch hunt that led to Frank's... (Boston Globe)
'Parade' stresses being correct over being complex May 16, 2007
From the first vengeful anthem to Southern honor and tradition, through all the nasty crowd scenes and the tormented cries of the oppressed, right up to the sledgehammer irony of the final parade, Uhry and Brown make sure we know that the bad guys are really, really bad, and the good guys -- defendant Leo Frank; his wife, Lucille; and the people, especially the downtrodden black ones, who are manipulated by ambitious and nasty white power brokers -- are really, really good, except for the tiny... (Boston Globe)
Heartache, in their own words May 13, 2007
But such was the experience of Brendan McNab and Bridget Beirne as they prepared for their parts in the SpeakEasy Stage Company production of "Parade," the Tony Award-winning musical based on the notorious Leo Frank case in Georgia ... A few weeks ago, SpeakEasy marketing director Jim Torres was researching the case when he stumbled across a reference to the Leo Frank Trial Collection of letters and documents at Brandeis University's special collections department ... Uhry, 70, has a family... (Boston Globe)
School News briefs: LCCHS alumna named Cherry Blossom Princess May 9, 2007
Editions of the North County Times Serving San Diego and Riverside Counties. Last modified Tuesday, May 8, 2007 7:03 PM PDT. (North County Times)
Folksy Southern contrarian dies Jan 16, 2007
Many blame Watson for whipping up anti-Semitism that led to the lynching of Leo Frank, who had been convicted of killing 13-year-old Mary Phagan in 1913. Mr. Brown's extensive research convinced him they were wrong. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
