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Leo Frank, Jewish co-owner of an Atlanta pencil factory, was convicted in 1913 of murdering Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old white Catholic employee, but after his sentence was commuted by the governor of Georgia in 1915, he was taken by a mob from a Milledgeville, Georgia, prison and lynched.  Many historians believe he was innocent in the first place and was the victim of anti-Semitism.<ref> Nancy MacLean, "The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary Populism," ''Journal of American History,'' Vol. 78, No. 3 (Dec., 1991), pp. 917-948 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2078796 in JSTOR]</ref>

Leo Frank, Jewish co-owner of an Atlanta pencil factory, was convicted in 1913 of murdering Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old white Catholic employee, but after his sentence was commuted by the governor of Georgia in 1915, he was taken by a mob from a Milledgeville, Georgia, prison and lynched.  Many historians believe he was innocent in the first place and was the victim of anti-Semitism.<ref> Nancy MacLean, "The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary Populism," ''Journal of American History,'' Vol. 78, No. 3 (Dec., 1991), pp. 917-948 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2078796 in JSTOR]</ref>

[[File:At-church-1914.jpg|thumb|300px|left|churches in 1914]]

[[File:At-church-1914.jpg|thumb|350px|left|churches in 1914]]

As a center for religion and publishing Atlanta could not rival Nashville, but it made its mark. John Melvin Henson (1887-1972) was an Atlanta-based composer and publisher of gospel music songbooks, and the proprietor of the J. M. Henson Music Company. Henson's company and the gospel songbooks he published were central to the gospel singing conventions that were popular in the South before World War II but declined thereafter.<ref> Wayne W. Daniel, "J. M. Henson, Gospel Music Entrepreneur." ''Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin'' 1996 57(4): 147-153. 0040-3253 </ref>

As a center for religion and publishing Atlanta could not rival Nashville, but it made its mark. John Melvin Henson (1887-1972) was an Atlanta-based composer and publisher of gospel music songbooks, and the proprietor of the J. M. Henson Music Company. Henson's company and the gospel songbooks he published were central to the gospel singing conventions that were popular in the South before World War II but declined thereafter.<ref> Wayne W. Daniel, "J. M. Henson, Gospel Music Entrepreneur." ''Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin'' 1996 57(4): 147-153. 0040-3253 </ref>

[[File:At-peachtree.jpg|thumb|300px|Peachtree Street in 1935]]

[[File:At-peachtree.jpg|thumb|300px|Peachtree Street in 1935]]