Crowing
Michael Rogin, 5 September 1996
Imagineering Atlanta
by Charles Rutheiser.
Verso, 324 pp., £44.95, July 1996,1 85984 800 1 Show More
by Charles Rutheiser.
Verso, 324 pp., £44.95, July 1996,
“... première of The Birth of a Nation and after the respectable citizens of Cobb County lynched Leo Frank. (Stirred up by anti-semitic hysteria, an Atlanta jury wrongly convicted the Jewish pencil factory manager of molesting and murdering a white female employee.) Atlanta was the headquarters of the powerful Twenties’ Klan, which augmented the negrophobia of ... ”