The Lynching of Leo Frank
 

A tragic scandal. A miscarriage of justice. A gripping story.

The events surrounding the 1913 murder of the young Atlanta factory worker Mary Phagan and the subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, the transplanted northern Jew who was her employer and accused killer, were so wide raging and tumultuous that they prompted both the founding of B’nai B’rith’s Anti Defamation League and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan.

Learn The Truth:

Thursday, March 15, at 7:00 p.m.

at Holiday Inn Mt. Pleasant | 250 Johnnie Dodds Blvd. (at the foot of the Ravenel Bridge)

Admission $10 / Student $5 / Event Sponsor $180

Sponsorship includes pre-lecture cocktail reception at 6:00 p.m.

For information or to RSVP [email protected] 843 884 2323

Steve Oney is the author of And the Dead Shall Rise: the Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank. The book won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for best work on the nations legal system and the National Jewish Book Award for history. Mr. Oney devoted 17 years of his life to producing this definitive book, and he came to some shocking conclusions.