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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 couldn't tell who he was. and that's when i began to call all my children. >> when i think about the hurt my mom went through, i can't talk about it. >> the mobile police department just didn't 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 found more to be a coincidence. >> michael donald was an innocent, good samaritan, not a thug. >> ...

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 together in a much more violent and revolutionary way than they had organized their violence under s...

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 argued that tiger had cut his deal to save his life and therefore would say anything that he was told...

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 didn't 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. ain't gonna tolerate this. >> thomas figures, he's in a position to push and nudge and make sure that this case does not rest from a criminal standpoint. >> i stuck to the kl...

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 hadn't acknowledged before. >> the klansmen lied. we knew they lied, so we brought them back a second time. >> and then you'd go back to somebody else that said, well, this man just told us this. you better tell us the truth now, and then they'd tell you more. >> and then some of them lied a second time, and we brought them back a third time. >> it was a gam...