Civil War or War between States - please advise.

[Bob from England]

4 hours ago, D-28 Player said:

Honestly not much. I'm a fan of "old time" and string band music so I'm familiar with the folk song but I honestly didn't know it was based on a real event until you said so. 

I googled it and in 1913 a Jewish factory supervisor was charged and convicted of murdering a little girl It was a controversial case because apparently some witnesses were not allowed to testify and some say that anti-semitism played a role in his conviction He was sentenced to death for the murder

The governor of Georgia commuted his sentence to life in prison and this so enraged the community that some local men broke him out of prison and lynched him 

That's about all I know about it 

There were two movies made about it: One called "The Don't Know" in 1937 and the 1988 mini-series you're probably referring to 

There was also a Broadway musical made about it called "Parade" which looks pretty interesting 

(Please excuse the lack of punctuation as several keys on y keyboard have stopped working for some reason)

 

Many thanks for that.  You're right, it was Georgia, not Alabama.  There was some hint in the story that locals didn't like the factory owner as he was a northerner and feelings were still running high over the war.