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Leo Frank was the manager of his uncle's pencil factory in Atlanta, Georgia. Leo Frank a northern educated Jew murdered and raped one of his child laborers named Mary Phagan during Confederate Memorial Day on August 26th 1913.
After a month long trial with several dozen witnesses testifying for the defense a Jury of 12 White men unanimously voted to convict Leo Frank of Murder. It was a controversial trial, because it would be the first time in American history that the main testimony of a Black man resulted in the conviction of a White man (Leo Frank).
Frank was sentenced to death for the crime and the Govenor of Georgia, John M. Slaton a senior law partner for the Leo Frank defense team commuted Leo Franks sentence to life in prison. Outraged Georgians organized a group of men, broke into Jail and seized Leo Frank later lynching him from an oak tree.
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