The wrongful conviction of Leo Frank for the death of Mary Phagan, and his later murder, were representative of which prejudices held by many in the South at that time?

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The wrongful conviction of Leo Frank for the death of Mary Phagan, and his later murder, were representative of which prejudices held by many in the South at that time?

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The case of Leo Frank, where he was convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, demonstrated the anti-Semitism in the South during the early 1900s. He was later kidnapped from prison and subsequently lynched for the crime, which he did not commit.