ADL CEO: What the Lynching of Leo Frank Shows Us About Hate. 5 minute read. White nationalists are met by a group of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017.

Leo Frank was transferred to the state prison farm at Milledgeville, southeast of Atlanta. On the afternoon of August 16, 1915, a group of twenty-five men drove from Marietta to Milledgeville.

Until ADL lawyers pressed officials to posthumously pardon Frank in the 1980s, the case was hushed in Atlanta's synagogues, the homes of Old Marietta, and among Phagan's descendants.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the trial of Leo Frank in Atlanta, ... ADL surveys show that 15 percent of Americans – 35 million people – still have anti-Semitic attitudes.

America has come a long way in the century since a lynch mob killed a Jewish man imprisoned in Georgia. But the anti-Semitic views that underlay Leo Frank’s killing are still apparent today. NEW ...

Leo Frank was convicted of the murder of 13-yearold Mary Phagan in Atlanta in 1913. ... Marilyn Mayo, a director of the ADL’s center on extremism, said that leofrank.info, ...

Last month – August 25, to be precise – marked the 100th anniversary of conviction of Leo Frank in Atlanta. The Leo Frank case was not the impetus for the founding of the Anti-Defamation ...

“One of them is that Charles was one of the ADL staffers who worked to obtain a posthumous pardon for Leo Frank.” Frank was accused and convicted of raping and murdering 13- year-old Mary ...

Leo Frank was lynched on Aug. 17, ... Frank’s arrest in 1913 was one of the moments that spurred the formation of the ADL in Chicago, ...

The mission was made clear in the trial that same year of Leo Frank, ... Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL’s CEO, responded to Musk’s recent attacks about banning the group from X, ...

The Slow Burn Theatre Company production of “Parade,” the story of the 1913 trial of Leo Frank in Marietta, Ga. and his lynching two years later, shows that bigots and anti-Semites must be ...