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...this was born from the curiosity of one small boy and the response of his father, William Slaton Jr., 36, a Negro chemist in the Rexall Drug Laboratories. A self-made scientist, Slaton knows the value of education. Too broke for fulltime college, he worked for years at odd jobs from welding to clerking before graduating at last, in 1951, from the University of Southern California...
...annals of history will echo this sin against God and his creatures unto eternity . . . May the memory of Governor John M. Slaton be a blessing to all who mourn his passing...
...this dislike of the South? Whenever TIME can dig at anything Southern, it doesn't miss a shot . . . Your article on Governor Slaton's death was only an excuse for publishing the incident about the lynching of Frank. Most of us would be glad to forget...
...There is no better illustration of racial prejudice . . . than an incident as the mob began gathering before Slaton's home, immediately after his courageous commutation of Frank's death sentence became known...
...Governor Slaton knew that he was committing political suicide, but he was not prepared for the violence of the reaction. In Atlanta, a mob marched up Peachtree Street to the Governor's home, had to be driven off by armed militiamen. In Marietta (where Mary Phagan was born and buried), another mob of some 40 unmasked men was organized, drove off to Milledgeville penitentiary, where Frank was imprisoned. Brandishing guns, they forced their way inside and dragged Leo Frank from his bed. Then they drove the 150 miles back to Marietta and hanged Leo Frank from a pine tree...