This Day in Jewish History August 17
On this day in 1915, Leo Frank, the Jewish manager of an Atlanta pencil factory was lynched.
On this day in 1915, Leo Frank, the 31-year-old Jewish manager of a pencil factory in Atlanta, was taken by force from his prison cell and hung by a lynch mob. Frank had moved from his home in New York to Atlanta in 1908 at the invitation of an uncle who had invested in the National Pencil Factory there. (A trained engineer, Frank had spent nine months at the Eberhard pencil factory in Germany learning the business.)
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