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* Oney, Steve. And the Dead Shall Rise: the Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Oct. 2003. 768p. illus. Index. Pantheon, $35 (0-679-42147-5). 364.15.
On April 26, 1913, 13-year-old Mary Phagan went to collect her pay envelope from the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta. The following morning her severely beaten body was discovered there in a trash-filled depression of the basement. Her murder launched a train of events that would divide Atlanta, stoke the fires of racism and anti-Semitism, and draw in a variety of powerful outside interests. Oney is a Los Angeles-based journalist raised in Atlanta. He has written a powerful, engrossing, and unsettling work that combines the best elements of a murder mystery, courtroom drama, and social ...
- The return of the repressed: Leo Frank through the eyes of Oscar...
- Magazine article from: Shofar Bronski, Michael June 22, 2005 700+ words
...their theme the grave injustice done to Leo Frank. The story of Mary Phagan's murder and Leo Frank's lynching have been written about...important place among retellings of the Mary Phagan/Leo Frank story not only because of this point...
- And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History Carter, Dan May 1, 2005 700+ words
...The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank. By Steve Oney...since the death of Mary Phagan and the lynching of Leo Frank, there have been...earlier researchers: Leo Frank did not murder Mary Phagan, and the evidence...
- Leo Frank: a definitive reassessment.(And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of...
- Magazine article from: Midstream Jaher, Frederic Cople November 1, 2004 700+ words
...Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, by Steve Oney...Dinnerstein's The Leo Frank Case (1968), and...murder of little Mary Phagan (a Dickensian trope...and the lynching of Leo Frank (which yanks me...
- ROLL OUT THE EMMYS FOR 'MARY PHAGAN'
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Ed Siegel, Globe Staff January 23, 1988 700+ words
...The Murder of Mary Phagan"? Let us count...about the trial of Leo Frank, a Northern Jew...American life. And Leo Frank's story is that...highs and lows, "Mary Phagan" is most definitely...he signed for "Mary Phagan." Gallagher is...obvious choice. His ...
- `Mary Phagan': A Yankee, a Jew And Above All An Outsider
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Michael E. Hill January 24, 1988 700+ words
...there are outsiders like Leo Frank. In 1913 he was in Atlanta...One of the girls was Mary Phagan, age 13. She was killed...century South, and Leo Frank was a Jew from Brooklyn...about things to do and `Mary Phagan' came up." A change...
- Mary Phagan, the victim
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
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- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- `Leo Frank' recalls tragic history
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Frazier Moore October 31, 2009 700+ words
...revisits the case of Leo Frank, a young Cornell...molested body of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old...delivered. The story of Leo Frank has been told in...Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank." Now, in "The...