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To: Olog-hai; All
The ADL was founded in 1913 with a mandate to fight anti-Semitism and all bias.

I don't know where this "mandate" purportedly came from, but the founding of the ADL in 1913 was no historical accident. That was the year of the infamous Leo Frank case, probably the ugliest incident of anti-Semitism ever in the US, at least up to that time.

Frank was a Jewish pencil factory manager in Atlanta, who was, in a mass anti-Semitic local frenzy, wrongfully convicted by a jury of murdering a thirteen year old girl who worked there. Frank was sentenced to death; his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the Georgia governor, who was run out of the state by mobs. Eventually, a rabid anti-Semitic mob captured Frank from his state prison cell and lynched him. (He is believed to be the only Jew ever lynched in the US.) Many years later, the black janitor at the factory who had testified against Frank at the trial, when close to death, confessed to the murder of the girl. Unfortunately, it was much too late for the state of Georgia to right the injustice to Frank, but he was given a formal posthumous pardon.

18 posted on 07/21/2015 3:45:48 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

Frank was killed by progressive klansmen. Appreciate the irony of that reality and the fact that the ADL is progressive and not Jewish


24 posted on 07/21/2015 10:58:45 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: justiceseeker93
Many years later, the black janitor at the factory who had testified against Frank at the trial, when close to death, confessed to the murder of the girl.

Do you have a source for that?

I believe you but I'd like to post a source when people say "Leo Frank got what he deserved."

Thanks in advance.

26 posted on 07/27/2021 12:40:26 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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