Talk:Leo Frank

Ethnicity

Please stop allowing "Jewish" to be referred to as an ethnicity. It is a religion. No group other than Christians (or Nazis) refer to it as an ethnic race. There are Jews from every portion of the world of many different ethnic backgrounds and every race. Then, if you allow it to continue to be listed on this bio as his religion, consider placing the religion of each person on every other bio provided in Wikipedia. The article itself states his religion repeatedly as a cause of action. There is no need to repeat it in the bio unless religion is to become a standard requirement of all bios on Wikipedia. 68.38.19.120 (talk) 16:42, 15 May 2011 (UTC) Tom Stoneman

First, you're wrong, "Jewish" is both a religion and an ethnicity. Second, the reason his religion (and ethnicity) are mentioned here is because they are important to his notability. That's not true of every person who has a bio on Wikipedia, so it's never going to be done on all bios. --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 01:37, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

And you don't feel the Jewish race is actually a race of people because of why? It does not matter what country they are located in the ethnicity does not change unless diluted. Where is the information obtained that only Christians and Nazis call them a race? One more thing is there is no "rule" that a religion can not be listed in a bio or that it must be listed in all if in one. Otr500 (talk) 04:56, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

The question of Frank's innocence

I think we may be missing what is almost unarguably the central point of this case, which is that multiple (almost all) scholars see this case as a huge miscarriage of justice. I think this point needs to be made in the body of the article, and that the lead must also reference it. When I have a couple seconds to rub together, I'm going to make a stab eat that. IronDuke 02:13, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Fact validation check KKK inauguration date October 16, 1915

On October 16, 1915, two months to the night after Frank was taken from the Milledgeville prison, members of the Knights of Mary Phagan burned a gigantic cross on top of Stone Mountain, reportedly inaugurating a revival of the Ku Klux Klan. The group was led by William J. Simmons and attended by 15 charter members and a few aging survivors of the original Klan.[60]

Woodrowvitz (talk) 06:55, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

What significance?

A fresh mound of human excrement was found in the elevator, though the significance was not recognized until after the trial.[13], quoth the article. No significance is ever indicated. Rwflammang (talk) 18:13, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

In regards to the mound of excrement, I've found two websites that state it's significance. Can someone verify the validity of these findings, and if correct, incorporate them in to the article?

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/frank/frankaccount.html http://www.leofrank.org/wrongly-accused-falsely-convicted-wantonly-murdered/

StrangeApparition2011 (talk) 23:01, 13 August 2011 (UTC)StrangeApparition2011

Vandalism

I just un-did some anti-Jewish vandalism from this page; please consider locking to prevent repetition. Thx.