Little Mary Phagan [electronic resource] / performed by Rosa Lee Carson.
Ballad sung in North Carolina cotton mills. "Little Mary Phagan," written by Fiddlin' John Carson, and sung here by his daughter Rosa Lee Carson (also known as "Moonshine Kate"), is based on the true-life murder of Mary Phagan, a 13-year old girl employed at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta, Georgia, who was found murdered in April 1913. Her employer, Leo Frank, who was eventually convicted of the crime, was lynched by a group of prominent Georgia citizens in Aug. of 1915. There is still controversy over whether Frank or janitor Jim Conly was the murderer.
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Record details
- Physical Description: 1 electronic resource
- Edition: Electronic edition
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, 2003.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Audio files have both streaming and download options.Duration: 3.34 min.Text transcribed by Monique Prince. Text encoded by Elizabeth S. Wright.This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.Title from heading on HTML file (viewed July 2, 2004).
- Type of Computer File or Data Note:
- Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files : ca. 10 kilobytes, 3.3 megabytes.
- Original Version Note:
- Transcribed from: Southern Folklife Collection, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, call number 78-15479 General Collection/Sound Recordings (#30001).
- Funding Information Note:
- Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.
- System Details Note:
- System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; MP3 player for audio files.
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Ballad sung in North Carolina cotton mills. "Little Mary Phagan," written by Fiddlin' John Carson, and sung here by his daughter Rosa Lee Carson (also known as "Moonshine Kate"), is based on the true-life murder of Mary Phagan, a 13-year old girl employed at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta, Georgia, who was found murdered in April 1913. Her employer, Leo Frank, who was eventually convicted of the crime, was lynched by a group of prominent Georgia citizens in Aug. of 1915. There is still controversy over whether Frank or janitor Jim Conly was the murderer.
