It exemplified the New South Era because South wanted to change from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy but there were many white racist antisemitic people conspiring against that. The Ku Kluk Clan for example actively participated in the lynching of Leo Frank a Jewish American factory superintendent who was convicted of the murder of a 13-year-old employee Mary Phagan. The trial was biased and the press inundated the case with misleading information. Leo was hanged by a mob that later formed the Ku Klux Clan.
