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At the time Jews weren't considered white. Plus they had the added downside (for the racists of the day) of not even being Christian, unlike black Baptists.

Seems like it keeps working in the US for hundreds of years. If national hatreds in Europe are a stand in for racism that has been going on forever too. Same with tribal hatreds around the world.

I understand where you're coming from, but be careful about reading history backwards. Just because an organization has been corrupted doesn't mean it was always that way. The ACLU is a good example. In the case of the ADL in 1933 they shifted their approach and went from responsive to...

The only evidence against him was the guy who claimed he helped dispose of the body. His story did not match the physical evidence, which implicated the janitor instead (link is to the section where he was commuted and it describes the evidence that exhonerated him)...

Do you mean this case? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank It was child murder, not rape, and seems like the weight of evidence shows the guy wasn't guilty of the crime, but was framed for it by the actual murderer. Nevertheless the guy was lynched two years after his sentence was commuted...