The lynching : the epic courtroom battle that brought down the Klan / Laurence Leamer.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: 372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780062458346Subject(s): Donald, Michael, 1961-1981 | Dees, Morris | Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Alabama -- History | United Klans of America -- Trials, litigation, etc | Racism -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century | Lynching -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century | Conspiracy -- Law and legislation -- United States | Alabama -- Race relations -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 364.134 Summary: 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.
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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.
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