Little Mary Phagan
By: performed by Rosa Lee Carson
Contributors: Moonshine Kate, 1911-1992; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Songs and music; English Ballads; Texts; Textile factories
Other titles: North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: 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.
Notes: Title from heading on HTML file (viewed July 2, 2004).

Audio files have both streaming and download options.

Duration: 3.34 min.

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.

Text transcribed by Monique Prince. Text encoded by Elizabeth S. Wright.

Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files : ca. 10 kilobytes, 3.3 megabytes.

Transcribed from: Southern Folklife Collection, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, call number 78-15479 General Collection/Sound Recordings (#30001).

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.

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