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Man, hung him in a tree. who would do something this hideous? >> in my vision, a brown-skinned man in a gray casket, i couldnt tell who he was. and thats when i began to call all my children. >> when i think about the hurt my mom went through, i cant talk about it. >> the mobile police department just didnt want to believe that mobile would still have klan in it. but they did. >> the fact that klansmen lived across the street from where this happened, it was something that the police officers fo...

Us stronger. and i believe that these type of attacks in many ways will strengthen our movement. >> the old way of activism was a problem because the michael donald case really brought down that model of organizing. the klan becomes one strand of a broad and intertwined social movement that brought together klansmen, neo-nazis, white separatists, christian identity proponents, and other followers of white religious theologies. later on, it brought in skinheads, militiamen, and it brought people ...

Around? >> when these two klansmen were identified as killers, the old man, bennie jack hays, he hired a klansman to burn his house down so he could hire a prominent attorney to defend his son in the state trial. >> he did burn the house. he got an insurance settlement. he used that to pay the lawyer for his son, henry hays. >> bennie jack hays raised enough money to hire one of the best criminal lawyers, m.a. "bubba" marsal. >> the defense was to attempt to discredit tiger, because mr. marsal a...

Someone has taken a young man, hung him in a tree. who would do something this hideous? >> michael donald was an innocent good samaritan, not a thug. >> the crime scene was in the same block where this group of klan lived. what better place to start? >> the mobile police department just didnt want to believe that mobile would still have klan in it, but they did. >> we felt the cops and the klan were working hand-in-hand. aint gonna tolerate this. >> thomas figures, hes in a position to push and ...

They kept pushing that point, pushing that point. >> it makes the pot boil. >> i was saying the same thing over and over and over again. >> they often contradicted one another, and they would back up, and they would acknowledge things they hadnt acknowledged before. >> the klansmen lied. we knew they lied, so we brought them back a second time. >> and then youd go back to somebody else that said, well, this man just told us this. you better tell us the truth now, and then theyd tell you more. >>...

Officer and getting away with it, especially in alabama. wed gotten the rope, we got the gun, and then i tied the hangmans noose in henrys car. we were out on a hunt. thats what we were doing. we were hunting. we were hunting black people. >> klansmen said that they were out hunting black people and they came upon michael donald and killed him. they literally mean they were out hunting black people. just go watch the tape of what happened to ahmaud arbery when they killed him on the streets in g...

Ledge, but he got up on the ledge in a hurry. >> they were klansmen. they were at that meeting on wednesday night. out of that motley crew, more than one, we strongly suspected, had participated in that murder and that lynching. ...or passing down the family business... ...or giving back to the places that inspire you. no matter your purpose, at pnc private bank, we will work with you every step of the way to help you achieve it. so let us focus on the how. just tell us - whats your why? ♪ yes...

Boom. and i said, jesus, addie, addie. but she didnt answer. everything went dark. i was the only survivor, and i lost my right eye. those beautiful girls was killed for nothing, just for being black. everybody was klansmen back then in the 60s. the police knew who did it, but they werent going to bring them to the bar of justice, so they just kept it quiet. they even gave these men nicknames.

Nooses everywhere they could in mobile. and my mom would say to me, dont you go there because you know people are looking at you. and i would tell her, i dont care. and shed be like, yes, you do care. dont you care? you got your children to raise. but i wasnt fearful of that. i felt like nothing man could do to me now would affect me as much as michaels death affected me. >> im a strong believer. i dont know about man, but i know what god can do. >> theres a difference between what you know and ...

Beulah Mae Donald and her attorney Michael Figures join forces with Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center to wage a multi-million-dollar civil suit...