Events for March 7, 2008

Teaching American History Workshop for Teachers

March 07, 2008

Nation Among Nations: World Wars and After

Lisa Lindquist Dorr, University of Alabama
March 7, 2008

Open to registered teachers only

For more information on GHS's role in TAH Programs click here;
for registration information see the Savannah TAH website.

Historical Marker Dedication: Leo Frank Lynching

March 07, 2008

Leo Frank Lynching

Friday, March 7, 2008

2:00 P.M.

The marker text will read as follows:

Near this location on August 17, 1915, Leo M. Frank, the Jewish superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, was lynched for the murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory employee. A highly controversial trial fueled by societal tensions and anti-Semitism resulted in a guilty verdict in 1913. After Governor John M. Slaton commuted his sentence from death to life in prison, Frank was kidnapped from the state prison in Milledgeville and taken to Phagan's hometown of Marietta where he was hanged before a local crowd. Without addressing guilt or innocence, and in recognition of the state's failure to either protect Frank or bring his killers to justice, he was granted a posthumous pardon in 1986.

Erected by the Georgia Historical Society, the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, and Temple Kol Emeth