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>> tiger was the most volatile of the bunch. i think he mentored under bennie jack. you could talk him off the 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, in that lynch. >> the klan, it was still [sighs] really guys? t-mobile has more 5g bars in more places than anyone. and now, when you switch, you can get iphone 13 on us, on ever...

>> theres a difference between what you know and what you can prove. the investigation was evolving. bob eddy was on the case. he was interviewing people. he never took his foot off the gas. agent bodman, under the direction of thomas figures, was out there interviewing klansmen. we knew who committed this crime. we, however, could not prove it without a break. >> i never once thought that i was not being looked at seriously as a suspect. law enforcement started to zero in on us more and more. >...

Advise them to take the fifth amendment, and so they testified before the grand jury. >> when youre interviewed about a murder before a federal grand jury, youre gonna be uncomfortable. thomas figures was a grinder. in this case, simply tenacious. >> thomas figures was really wanting to have me locked up. 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 theyd back u...

Been framed by the communists. >> because a communist dont pick, only if youre in their way. right now, im in their way. im the one theyre picking on. to get to me, they got my son. >> how could a klansman living on a rundown farm in a rural part of mobile country come up with the money to hire one of the best defense attorneys 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 atto...

>> thomas figures, hes in a position to push and nudge and make sure that this case does not rest from a criminal standpoint. >> i stuck to the klansmen. the more i asked questions, the more they talked. >> tiger knowles finally cracked. >> and he names henry hays. gotcha. got him, man, got him. >> so, when we think about michael donald, how long will it take for his family to get justice? how many years? how many decades? how much time? >> the body of a black man has been found hanging from a t...

Would have known. >> testifying for the prosecution, james "tiger knowles, pointed at his fellow ku klux klansman, henry hays, and said that together, they killed 19-year-old michael donald in march, 1981, because he was black. >> the klan wanted the message to get back to the black people of not just of alabama, of the whole united states, that we would not stand for a black person killing a white police officer and getting away with it, especially in alabama. we had gotten the rope, and we got...

>> the settlement in the michael donald case certainly was something that organizers in the white power movement were paying attention to, as they planned what was next for their movement. >> what doesnt destroy us makes 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 socia...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Growing up in the civil rights epicenter of Selma, Alabama, Terri...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Growing up in the civil rights epicenter of Selma, Alabama, Terri...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Growing up in the civil rights epicenter of Selma, Alabama, Terri...