The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan Paperback - 2017
by Laurence Leamer
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In March 1981, Henry Hays and James Knowles, members of the United Klans of America, the largest and most dangerous Klan organization in the United States, picked up nineteen-year-old Michael Donald on the streets of Mobile, Alabama. They were seeking retaliation after a largely black jury failed to convict a black man accused of murdering a white policeman. Hays and Knowles beat Donald, cut his throat, and left his body hanging from a tree branch in a racially mixed residential neighborhood. Arrested, charged, and convicted, Hays was sentenced to death--the first time in more than half a century that the state of Alabama had given that penalty to a white man for killing a black man.
Morris Dees, the cofounder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, saw the case as an opportunity to file a lawsuit against the UKA. His colleagues said his lawsuit was impossible to win and a folly. But Dees had heard that before. On behalf of Michael's grieving mother, Mrs. Beulah Donald, Dees filed a first-of-its-kind civil suit and charged the Klan organization and its leaders with conspiracy. He proceeded to put the Klan leaders on trial, which produced some of the most audacious testimony of any civil rights case--as well as a stunning and precedent-setting verdict. Dees destroyed the UKA and created a weapon that the SPLC used time and again against other racist organizations.
The Lynching is a suspenseful true story that takes us into the heart of darkness, but in the end shows that Michael Donald and other civil rights martyrs did not die in vain.
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- Title The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
- Author Laurence Leamer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company
- Date 2017-06-27
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780062458360 / 0062458361
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1980's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Alabama
- Locality: Mobile, Alabama
- Library of Congress subjects Dees, Morris, United Klans of America - Trials,
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.134
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