Who was Michael Donald? Brutally beaten and strangled by Ku Klux Klan, his mother Beulah Mae fights for justice
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...