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As a Jewish child in Atlanta, playwright Alfred Uhry grew up in the shadow of a notorious antisemetic lynching. Leo Frank was a manager at a pencil factory who was convicted of raping and murdering 13 ...
The show, which debuted in 1998, is based on the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man living in Atlanta in the early 20th century who was convicted of the murder of a teenage girl and then lynched by ...
Set in 1913, “Parade” tells the true story of Leo Frank (Max Chernin), a Jewish man from Brooklyn, N.Y., who moved to Georgia for a job managing the National Pencil Co. factory, owned by the ...
In 1913 little Mary Phagan is found dead at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta Police quickly decide that the Jewish Superintendent Leo Frank should be held responsible The trial commences ...
With a record-breaking number of artist applications, Atlanta Fringe gets ready for its most ambitious year yet. :: If ...
It’s based on the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish pencil factory manager in Atlanta who was convicted in 1913 of murdering a 13-year-old girl who worked with him. Historians now widely believe that ...
On April 26, 1913, the brutal murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan was discovered in the basement of the Atlanta, Ga. pencil factory where she worked. Phagan arrived before noon that day to collect he ...
At Musgrave Pencil Company in Shelbyville, Tennessee, politics rarely came up before this year. President Donald Trump’s ...
At Musgrave, Farrar’s knees did not hurt. Plus, he got to work alongside his brother, cousin and sister-in-law, all employees at the pencil factory. Born and raised in Shelbyville, he was saving ...
How a hidden pencil shop in Baghdad became a global sensation The history of how this incredible shop became known to the public starts with Indian content creator Ankita Kumari, who chronicled ...