Mary Phagan

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Mary Phagan a pencil factory worker, was raped and murdered in 1913. The factory manager Leo Frank was convicted for the murder and imprisoned but then was lynched two years later on August, 16 1915.

Courtesy of Atlanta History Center.

Mary Phagan

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