A new musical about the lynching of a Jewish businessman for a 1913 murder of an Atlanta teen-ager opens in New York. “Parade” retells the story of Leo Frank, who was pulled out of jail and lynched by a mob after Georgia’s governor commuted his sentence for the murder of Mary Phagan at a pencil factory. Frank was given a posthumous pardon in 1986.
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