| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (3 audio files) : digital |
| Playing Time |
03:31:18 |
| Description |
digital stereo rda |
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audio file rda |
| Note |
Unabridged. |
| Performer |
Narrator: Kevin Orton. |
| Summary |
Was an innocent man wrongly accused of murder? On April 26, 1913, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan planned to meet friends at a parade in Atlanta, Georgia. But first she stopped at the pencil factory where she worked to pick up her paycheck. Mary never left the building alive. A black watchman found Mary's body brutally beaten and raped. Police arrested the watchman, but they weren't satisfied that he was the killer. Then they paid a visit to Leo Frank, the factory's superintendent, who was both a northerner and a Jew. Spurred on by the media frenzy and prejudices of the time, the detectives made Frank their prime suspect, one whose conviction would soothe the city's anger over the death of a young white girl. The prosecution of Leo Frank was front-page news for two years, and Frank's lynching is still one of the most controversial incidents of the twentieth century. It marks a turning point in the history of racial and religious hatred in America, leading directly to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League and to the rebirth of the modern Ku Klux Klan. Relying on primary source documents and painstaking research, award-winning novelist Elaine Alphin tells the true story of justice undone in America. |
| Audience |
Text Difficulty 9 - Text Difficulty 12 |
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1210 Lexile. |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 99178 KB). |
| Subject |
Juvenile Nonfiction.
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Law.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Orton, Kevin.
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| ISBN |
9781490662879 (sound recording) |
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