Presents the story of the prosecution and hanging of Leo Frank in 1915 in Georgia for the rape and murder of a thirteen-year-old girl. A black watchman at the pencil factory where the girl worked was the first suspect, but the police arrested the northern, Jewish factory superintendent setting off a media frenzy. Describes how the case led to both the founding of the Anti-Defamation League and the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan.