Tag: Steven Lebow
Chasing Justice: A rabbi’s single-minded mission to exonerate Leo Frank
Two years following his hotly debated murder conviction in 1913, Leo Frank was the victim of Georgia’s most notorious lynching. Rabbi Steven Lebow is on a quest to clear Frank’s name.
Steven Lebow: The Civil Rights Act changed things, but there are doors that still need to be opened
The passage of the Civil Rights Act sent me on a journey that I am still walking today. In 1987, I marched with Hosea Williams to integrate Forsyth County. In 1993, I organized the movement to protest the Cobb County anti-gay resolution. By 1994, 30 years ago, I began to lead the cause to completely exonerate Leo Frank, an innocent man who was lynched in Marietta in 1915.








