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First two episodes aired Sunday, last two coming April 18.

Inside the case that bankrupted the Klan elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 At first, Cecelia Perry thought she knew what happened to her younger brother when he failed to return from a late-night trip to a service station on March 20, 1981. Nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was thoughtful and responsible — working at night and watching Perry’s oldest son during the day. He’d been with Perry at another sister’s home in Mobile, Alabama, when he stepped out around 11 p.m. to pick up cigarettes. As the hour grew later with no sign of him, “everybody assumed that he’d gone home to my m...

According to sociologists Stewart Emory Tolnay and EM Beck, who wrote 'A Festival of Violence', Michael Donald was different from some lynching victims. According to them, he was not accused of committing a crime or thought to have breached racial etiquette. Instead, he was killed because the Klan members were furious that the second trial of Josephus Anderson, a Black man accused of murdering a white policeman, had been declared a mistrial when the jury could not reach a verdict. Enraged with the verdict, Klan members, Hays and Knowles, chose Donald at random, tracked him down, beat him brut...

Opinion: The lessons of Beulah Mae Donald, the mother who took down the Klan CNN 5 days ago Opinion by Cornell William Brooks © Mary Hattler/Mobile Press-Register/AP Beulah Mae Donald of Mobile, Ala., whose son Michael was killed by two Ku Klux Klansmen in 1981, has taken ownership of the United Klans of America headquarters building in Tuscaloosa in a settlement of a lawsuit against the KKK, May 20, 1987. (AP Photo/Mobile Press-Register/Mary Hattler) America is transfixed and yet traumatized by the Derek Chauvin trial in the killing of George Floyd. As a nation, we've be...