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NEWSPAPERS:

The Atlanta Journal and Constitution [AJC] 1982-2024

The Atlanta Constitution [AC] 1913 - 1982.

The Atlanta Georgian [AG]913 - 1915.

The Atlanta Journal [AJ]1913 - 1983.

The Baltimore Morning Sun, 1913 - 1915.

East Cobb Neighbor, 1982.

The Jeffersonian, 1913 - 1915.

The Marietta Daily Journal [MDJ1986 - 2024.

The Marietta Daily Journal and Courier (weekly edition) 1913 - 1915.

The Nashville Tennessean, 1982 - 1988.

The New York Times, [NYT]1913 - 1915.

The Thunderbolt, 1983 - 1988.

Washington Post, [WP]1982.

Watson's Magazine [WM]1912-1917

LEGAL SOURCES:

American State Trials, Volume X, John Davidson Lawson, 1918.

Brief - In the Supreme Court of Georgia, Fall Term, 1913, Leo M. Frank, Plaintiff in Error vs. State of Georgia, Defendant in Error: In Error from Fulton County Superior Court at the July Term, 1913: Brief of Evidence

(The original stenographic transcript of the trial is missing. Both the prosecution and defense certified that the 'Brief of Evidence' was an accurate account of the proceedings at the trial. The Brief does not have any of the questions asked.)

Georgia Appeals, 1913-1915.

MANGUM - U.S. Supreme Court, FRANK v. MANGUM, 237 U.S. 309 (1915), LEO M. FRANK, Appellant v. C. WHEELER MANGUM, Sheriff of Fulton County, Georgia, No. 775, Argued February 25 and 26, 1915, Decided April 19, 1915.

Georgia Reports 141 Georgia 243 (1914), 142 Georgia 617 (1914), 142 Georgia 741 (1914).

Georgia State Code: The code of the State of Georgia, 1910 (Constitution of the State of Georgia).

Pinkerton - Pinkerton Detective Agency Investigation Reports, filed by various Pinkerton detectives, May 1913, Leo M. Frank Papers, American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, OH.

Posthumous Pardon, 1983.

Affidavit in the state of Tennessee, County of Sullivan, 1982.

(Alonzo McClendon Mann, Gore and Hillman Attorneys, Bristol, Tennessee).

Decision in Response to the Application for Posthumous Pardon for Leo Frank. (Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, 1986).

BOOKS:

Alexander, Henry Aaron. Some Facts about the Murder Notes in the Phagan Case. Privately Published Pamphlet, 1914.

Alpin, Elaine Marie, An Unspeakable Crime The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank, Carolrhoda Books, 2010.

Arnold, Reuben Rose. The Trial of Leo Frank: Reuben R. Arnold's Address to the Court in His Behalf. Baxley, Georgia. Classic Publishing Company, 1915.

Berstein, Matthew H. Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television.  Univ. of Georgia Press, 2009.

Busch, Francis Xavier. Guilty or Not Guilty. Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1952.

Cook, Fred J. The Ku Klux Klan: American's Recurring Nightmare. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1983.

Connolly, Charles Powell. The Truth About the Frank Case. New York, Vail-Ballou Co., 1915.

Dinnerstein, Leonard. The Leo Frank Case. University of Georgia Press, 1966, 1987, 1991, 2008.

Dorsey, Hugh Manson. Argument of Hugh M. Dorsey at the Trial of Leo M. Frank. Atlanta, Georgia, The Johnson-Dallis Co., 1914.

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Flowers, R. Barri, Murder at the Pencil Factor: The Killing of Mary Phagan 100 Years Later, 2017.

Frey, Robert Seitz and Thompson, Nancy. The Silent and the Damned: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, 1988, New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002.

The Frank Case, Inside Story of Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery, Atlanta, Atlanta Publishing Co. 1914.

Garrett, Franklin M. Atlanta and Environs, 3 Volumes. New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1954.

Golden, Harry. A Little Girl is Dead, Cleveland, the World Publishing Co., 1965.

Greene, Ward. Death in the Deep South. A Novel About Murder, New York. Stackpole, 1936.

Harris, Nathaniel E. Autobiography. Macon, Georgia, The J.W. Burke Co., 1925.

Henson, Allen Lumpkin. Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer. New York, Vantage Press, 1959.

Hertzberg, Steven, Strangers Within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845-1915, Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1978.

Lasker, Albert D.; Interview by Boyden Sparkles, transcript, Albert D. Lasker Collection, Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, IL.

Lindeman, Albert S. The Jew Accused: Three Anti-Semitic Affairs (Dreyfus, Belis, Frank).  1894-1915 Cambridge: Cambridge Unive. Press, 1993.

Mamet, David. The Old Religion: Overlook Press 1987, 2002

Melnick, Jeffrey. Black -Jewish Relations on Trial:  Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South. Jackson:  Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2000.

The Nation of Islam.  The Secret Relationship between Blacks & Jews,  Volume 3; The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, 2016.

Oney, Steve.  And the Dead Shall rise:  The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank. New York: Pantheon Books, 2003.

Powell, Arthur G. I Can Go Home Again. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1943.

Samuels, Charles and Louise. Night Fell on Georgia. New York, Dell Publishing Co., 1956.

Simmons, William J. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Atlanta, Ku Klux Press, 1915.

Van Paassen, Pierre. To Number Our Days. New York, Charles Scribner & Sons, 1964.

Wiggins, Gene.  Fiddlin' Georgia Crazy: Fiddlin' John Carso, His Real World and the  World of His Songs, 1986.

Woodward, C. Vann. Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel, 1938.

 

ARTICLES, PERIODICALS, MAGAZINES:

Asbury, Herbert. "Hearst Comes to Atlanta, " The American Mercury, VII. January, 1926, 67 - 95.

Connolly, C.P. "The Frank Case, " Collier's LIV (December 19), 6 - 7, 22 - 24, December 26, p. 18-20, 23 - 25.

Moseley, Clement Charlton. "The Case of Leo M. Frank, 1913 - 1915, The Georgia Historical Quarterly, LI (March, 1967), 42 - 62.

Israel Today, 1984.

"The Passing of Tom Watson," The Outlook, CXXXII (October 11, 1922), 228 - 29.

"The United States Supreme Court and the Frank Case," The Central Law Journal, LXXX (1915), 29 - 32.

US Magazine, 1982.

Watson's Magazine, 1914 - 1915.

"Why Was Frank Lynched?" Forum, LVI (December 1916) 677 - 92.

UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL

Bowden, Henry. "Study of the Mary Phagan-Leo Frank Case."

Unpublished Paper, Atlanta, Georgia, 1945.

Brown, Tom Watson. "Notes on the Case of Leo Max Frank and Its Aftermath." Atlanta Miscellany File, #572, Box 2, Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Special Collections Department.

Freshman Clark. "Beyond Pontius Pilate and Judge Lynch: The Pardoning Power in Theory and Practice As Illustrated in the Leo Frank Case. Unpublished Bachelor of Arts Thesis, Department of History and Government, Harvard College, 1986.

Neely, Edgar. "Brief of Memorandum Amicus Curiae in Opposition to the Grant of Posthumous Pardon." Application for Pardon for Leo Frank, Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, 1983.

Special Collections and Archives

MOVIES, DOCUMENTARIES, AND PRESENTATIONS

Birth of a Nation, 1915.

They Won't Forget, 1937.

National Broadcasting Company (NBC): Profiles in Courage series: John M. Slaton, 1962.

The Murder of Mary Phagan, TV Miniseries, NBC, 1988.

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Documentary.  The People vs Leo Frank. 2008.

Seeking Justice: The Leo Frank Case Revisited: 2009.

Cobb Librarian Discusses the Lynching of Leo Frank: 2023

PLAYS:

Night Witch, 1967.

Parade, 1998; 2008, 2023, 2024

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES:

Atlanta Historical Society

Atlanta City Directory

Leo Frank Personality File Mss91

Emory University

Robert W. Woodruff Library, Special Collections Department

Atlanta Miscellaneous File #572, Box 2

Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles

Application for Posthumous Pardon of Leo Frank and decisions.

Georgia Department of Archives and History,

John Marshall Slaton Collection 2094-01, 51 - 60 (restricted)

John Marshall Slaton Collection AC# 00070

Mary Phagan-Kean Scrapbooks, Pictures, and files

PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS

A. Interviews

Lily Phagan Baswell, in Marietta, April 9 and 13, 1987. Mrs. Baswell is the first cousin of little Mary Phagan.

Tom Watson Brown, in Atlanta, March-October 1987. Mr Brown is the great grandson of Tom Watson and is considered to be an authority on the Phagan-Frank case.

Betty Cantor, in Atlanta, April 6, 1987. Ms. Cantor is the Associate Director for the Anti-Defamation League.

Annabelle Phagan Cochran, in Atlanta, March 5, 1987. Mrs. Cochran is the author's aunt.

Franklin Garrett, in Atlanta, February 14, 1987. Mr. Garrett is a well-known Atlanta historian and author of Atlanta and Environs.

J.C. Girthrie, in Atlanta, February 23, 1987. Mr. Girthrie is a childhood friend of the author's grandfather.

George Keeler, in Marietta, February 24, 1987. Mr. Keeler is the son of O.B. Keeler, journalist who covered the trial for the Atlanta Georgian.

Bill Kinney, in Marietta, February-October, 1987. Mr Kinney is the Senior Editor of the Marietta Daily Journal and has written several series on the Phagan-Frank case. He is considered to be an authority on the case and has studied the case for fifty years.

Stuart Lewengrub, in Atlanta, April 6, 1987. Mr. Lewengrub is the Regional Director for the Anti-Defamation League.

Mary Richards Phagan, in Atlanta, April 6, 1987. Mrs. Phagan is the author's grandmother.

Charles Wittenstein, in Atlanta, April 6, 1987. Mr Wittenstein is the Southern Counsel for the Anti-Defamation League.

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Lost pages from the first edition book of 'The Murder of Little Mary Phagan', 1987, the original publisher left out the reference, citations, bibliography, and footnotes of the work.

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Bell Telephone Conversations:

Billie Coleman, June 22, 1987, and January 9th, 1988. Ms. Coleman is the stepsister of little Mary Phagan.

Frances Parrish, June 22, 1987; July 12, 1987; August 10, 13, 25, 1987; September 5 and 6, 1987. Mrs. Parrish is the niece of little Mary Phagan and furnished the pictures of the Phagan family and the postcard written by Little Mary Phagan (1899 - 1913).

Correspondence Letters from:

Stuart Lewengrub, March 21, 1974. Mr. Lewengrub is the Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.

Silas Moore, January 17, 1983; decisions dated December 22, 1983, and March 11, 1986. Mr. Moore is the Deputy Director for the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles.

Sandra Roberts, April 6, 14, and 22, 1982. Ms. Roberts was the librarian for the Nashville Tennessean newspaper.