The People v. The Klan
Overview
This gripping four-part docuseries chronicles the harrowing journey of Beulah Mae Donald, a determined Black mother from Alabama. Following the tragic murder of her nineteen-year-old son, Michael, whose lifeless body was discovered hanging from a tree in Mobile on March 21, 1981, Beulah Mae stands resolute against the Ku Klux Klan. While local authorities hesitated to recognize the racially charged nature of the crime, Beulah Mae and community leaders pressed for justice, vowing to hold both Michael’s murderers and the Klan accountable for their actions.
Episodes
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1
The Lynching
In 1981, the brutal lynching of a Black teenager named Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, goes unpunished as local authorities refuse to identify the ...
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It Takes a Mother
Beulah Mae Donald and her lawyer, Michael Figures, team up with Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center to initiate a multi-million-dollar civ...