On occasion William and I have bantered about the legacy of Baptist preacher's son Marshall Frady. Frady's review of Oney's book on Frank was the last one he did for NY Rev of Books.
I read Oney's book about 15 years ago, all 750 pages, and sat in lecture and talked to Oney at Furman about 7 years ago.
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Klan was revised in 1915 when they lit up Stone Mountain in the wake of this lynching.