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Leo Frank was lynched on Aug. 17, 1915 after then-Gov. John Slaton commuted his death sentence for a conviction of murdering a young girl.

For Ben Platt, playing the role of Leo Frank, a lynching victim in 1915 Georgia, is a responsibility and a privilege.

|Michael Arden mounts his New York City Center production of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s dark musical on Broadway. |||

Now is as welcome a time as any to celebrate Jewish life, learn a Yiddish song and discover the lessons of history along the way.

Michael Arden mounts his New York City Center production of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's dark musical on Broadway.

On the eve of its first performance, a neo-Nazi protest broke out outside the New York theater.

A group of neo-Nazis protested at a preview of <i>Parade</i> in New York City last week, a musical about the trial and 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish manager of a factory in Atlanta.

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The bulk of the collection consists of various legal documents and correspondence related to the ADL's initiative aiming to exonerate Leo Frank which began roughly seventy years after his murder.

The 1915 lynching of the unjustly accused Leo Frank and the election of Georgia's first Jewish senator are utterly dissimilar, yet they connect the past and by most indications the future of Jewish life below the Mason-Dixon Line.