The Leo Frank case revived nationalistic and raced antisemitism in the U.S.

Evidence

The denouement was practically inevitable. A band of citizens from Mary Phagan’s home town took Leo Frank from the state prison, carried him 175 miles across the state, and butchered him almost in their own back yards. ‘his ended the affair but not its consequences. In the last stages of the Frank Case, anti-Semitism regained the fiercely nationalistic twist it had acquired briefly in the nineties; and it assumed also an explicitly racial tone. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1103

Categorization

• XREF: Direct evidence for the reader’s core thesis that racialization is a transitional form the enemy category passes through — here the nationalistic nativism of the 1890s regains racial form around a new target, merging economic resentment of northern wealth. — connects to: Anti-communism replaced anti-Semitism as America’s acceptable prejudice outlet. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1812
• SHARE: Tom Watson’s leap from anti-Catholic tirades to anti-Semitic ones in the same year is a tight, nasty example of manufactured-enemy transfer.

Broader Connections

• Anti-communism replaced anti-Semitism as America’s acceptable prejudice outlet. #contradicts (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1812