The lynching :
Leamer, Laurence,
The lynching : the epic courtroom battle that brought down the Klan / Laurence Leamer. - First edition. - 372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-358) and index.
On a Friday night in March 1981, Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. They were seeking to retaliate after a largely black jury could not reach a verdict in a trial involving a black man accused of the murder of a white man. The two Klansmen found nineteen-year-old Michael Donald walking home alone. Hays and Knowles abducted him, beat him, cut his throat, and left his body hanging from a tree branch in a racially mixed residential neighborhood.
9780062458346 39.04
Donald, Michael, 1961-1981.
Dees, Morris.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--History.--Alabama
United Klans of America--Trials, litigation, etc.
Racism--History--Alabama--20th century.
Lynching--History--Alabama--20th century.
Conspiracy--Law and legislation--United States.
Alabama--Race relations--History--20th century.
364.134
The lynching : the epic courtroom battle that brought down the Klan / Laurence Leamer. - First edition. - 372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-358) and index.
On a Friday night in March 1981, Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. They were seeking to retaliate after a largely black jury could not reach a verdict in a trial involving a black man accused of the murder of a white man. The two Klansmen found nineteen-year-old Michael Donald walking home alone. Hays and Knowles abducted him, beat him, cut his throat, and left his body hanging from a tree branch in a racially mixed residential neighborhood.
9780062458346 39.04
Donald, Michael, 1961-1981.
Dees, Morris.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--History.--Alabama
United Klans of America--Trials, litigation, etc.
Racism--History--Alabama--20th century.
Lynching--History--Alabama--20th century.
Conspiracy--Law and legislation--United States.
Alabama--Race relations--History--20th century.
364.134