How did the Leo Frank case impact Georgia Society

Historically, the Frank case has had reverberations throughout the past century. The only high-profile lynching of an American Jew, Frank's death could be felt in both the North and the South, and in both Jewish and non-Jewish communities.

Notably, two significant groups latched on to the Frank case to expand their reach nationally.

"A short time after the lynching of Leo Frank, 33 members of the group that called itself the Knights of Mary Phagan gathered on a mountaintop near Atlanta and formed the new Ku Klux Klan of Georgia," University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law professor Douglas O. Linder wrote in a 2008 overview of the Frank case. "Meanwhile, members of an outraged Jewish community met to create the Anti-Defamation League to combat anti-Semitism.