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East Hall Middle School students video chat with author of Leo Frank book
Author wrote of mans lynching in 1915 during Atlanta murder case
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East Hall Middle School eighth-graders talk to Steve Oney, author of “And the Dead Shall Rise,” via Google Hangouts. The students prepared questions for the author about his research for the book. The book delves into the lynching of Leo Frank in Marietta in 1915, which is a Georgia Studies grade standard. - photo by Kristen Oliver
In Marietta in 1913, it wasn’t unusual for a 13-year-old girl to work at a pencil factory. It was highly unusual for her to be raped and bludgeoned to death. The murder of Mary Phagan and the ensuing lynching of her accused killer, Leo Frank, two years later has been the subject of speculation and discussion for 100 years.