Learn about the Leo Frank case before the exhibit ends this year.
Nothing to do with the holidays but ending December 31 is the Breman Museum’s exhibition, “Seeking Justice: The Leo Frank Case Revisited.”
This is the truly tragic story of a murder that happened in 1913 that had a tremendous effect on Georgia and the nation. Very briefly, Leo Frank was a manager at a pencil factory and was accused of murdering 13-year-old Mary Phagan in the basement of the factory. The eye-witness was an African-American janitor. It was a very racially charged and sensational story, but was built on and used by politicians and competing city newspapers to inflame people even …read more
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