Bibliography, Books we used for research in putting together the Parade website Burns, Rebecca. Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot. Ohio: Emmis Books, 2006.

From the back cover: “During the hot summer of 1906, anger simmered in Atlanta, a city that outwardly savored its reputation as the Gate City of the New South, a place where the races lived peacefully, if apart, and everyone focused more on prosperity than prejudice. But racial hatred came to the forefront during a heated political campaign, and the city’s newspapers fanned its flames with sensational reports alleging assaults on white women by black men. The rage erupted in late September, and, during one of the most brutal race riots in the history of America, roving groups of whites attacked and killed at least twenty-five blacks. After four days of violence, black and white civic leaders came together in unprecedented meetings that can be viewed as either concerted public relations efforts to downplay the events, or as setting the stage for Atlanta’s civil rights leadership half a century later.”

Dinnerstein, Leonard. The Leo Frank Case. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968. Until Oney’s book, And the Dead Shall Rise a….

Frey, Robert Seitz, and Nancy C. Thompson. The Silent and the Damned: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002.

Hertzberg, Steven. Strangers within the Gate City. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1978.

Kuhn, Clifford M., Harlon E. Joye, and E. Bernard West. Living Atlanta: An Oral History of the City, 1914-1948. Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1990.

Mamet, David. The Old Religion. New York: The Free Press, 1997.

Mason, Jr., Herman “Skip”. Going Against the Wind: A Pictorial History of African-Americans in Atlanta. Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1992.

Melnick, Jeffrey. Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.

From the University Press of Mississippi’s website:

An analysis of the Leo Frank case as a measure of the complexities characterizing the relationship between African Americans and Jews in America…….In our time a martyr's aura falls over Frank as a victim of religious and regional bigotry. The unending controversy has inspired debates, movies, books, songs, and theatrical productions. Among the creative works focused on the case are a ballad by Fiddlin' John Carson, David Mamet's novel The Old Religion in 1997, and Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's musical Parade in 1998.

Indeed, the Frank case has become a touchstone in the history of black-Jewish cultural relations. How- ever, for too long the trial has been oversimplified as the moment when Jews recognized their vulnerability in America and began to make common cause with African Americans.

This study has a different tale to tell. It casts off old political and cultural baggage in order to assess the cultural context of Frank's trial, and to examine the stress placed on the relationship of African Americans and Jews by it. The interpretation offered here is based on deep archival research, analyses of the court records, and study of various artistic creations inspired by the case. It suggests that the case should be understood as providing conclusive early evidence of the deep mutual distrust between African Americans and Jews, a distrust that has been skillfully and cynically manipulated by powerful white people.

Black-Jewish Relations on Trial is concerned less with what actually happened in the National Pencil Company factory than with how Frank's trial, conviction, and lynching have been used as an occasion to explore black-Jewish relations and the New South. Just as with the O. J. Simpson trial, the Frank trial requires that Americans make a profound examination of their essential beliefs about race, sexuality, and power.

Miller, William J., and Brian C. Pohanka. An Illustrated History of the Civil War: Images of an American Tragedy. New York: Barnes & Noble Inc., 2000. Beautifully compiled visual history in 700 plus photos…..

Oney, Steve. And the Dead Shall Rise. New York: Random House, 2003.