| January 25, 1915 |
DeKalb County grants a charter to Emory University
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Emory University |
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Emory University |
| January 25, 1915 |
UDC co-founder Anna Davenport Raines dies, Savannah, Georgia |
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
| May 14, 1915 |
The Plunderer starring William Farnum opens. It was shot at the Consolidated Mines in Dahlonega |
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Dahlonega, Georgia |
| June 21, 1915 |
Leo Frank is transferred from the Fulton County prison to the State Penitentiary at Milledgeville
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
| June 21, 1915 |
Governor John Slaton commutes Leo Frank's death sentence to a lifetime prison sentence.
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| July 18, 1915 |
Leo Frank is assaulted by an inmate of the prison. His throat is slashed.
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| August 15, 1915 |
Gutzon Borglum meets with representatives of the United Daughters of the Confederacy about carving Stone Mountain
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John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum |
| August 17, 1915 |
A lynch mob hangs Leo Frank, near the present-day site of the Big Chicken
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Marietta, GA |
| September 30, 1915 |
Lester Maddox is born, Atlanta, Georgia
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Lester Maddox |
| November 18, 1915 |
Braves Field opens, Boston, Mass.
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Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves |
| November 22, 1915 |
A circus train collided with a passenger train six miles east of Columbus, Georgia. 15 passengers and most of the animals died in the wreck or in the ensuing fire. |
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Muscogee County, Georgia |
| November 25, 1915 |
William Simmons, along with some of the men who lynched Leo Frank, and others burn a cross at the top of Stone Mountain, signaling the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan
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Stone Mountain |
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Ku Klux Klan in Georgia |
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| December 6, 1915 |
Ku Klux Klan parade down Peachtree Street following the premiere of D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation at the Atlanta Theater
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
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Ku Klux Klan in Georgia |
