A presentation and film screening at Temple Israel
May 7, 2015 - 7pm
Leo Frank was a Jewish man accused of the brutal murder of Mary Phagan, a young laborer in his Atlanta factory, in 1913. Frank’s trial and subsequent lynching two years later garnered nationwide notoriety and protest.
The failings of the American justice system and issues of race and religion that the Frank events encompass are in stark evidence in the daily headlines.