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>> lynching is a tool to control and oppress black people. >> racialized violence is as old as the constitution. >> klans are not running around with white sheets over their head, but it's still happening. >> today, people are horrified of the police. it's the modern day lynching. >> what are we going to do about it? we move forward with people deciding i'm bold enough, and i'm going to make it change. >> beulah mae donald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in the united states. >> this is an incredible story of courage. >> the body of a black man has been found h...

Downtown during the early part of the night, and then a domestic squabble had actually occurred over on dolphin street, which is three blocks away. there were three male subjects involved, ralph eugene hayes, and jimmy and johnny edgar. mr. hayes had failed to come home from work that evening. hayes lived at 115 herndon avenue. simply because of the proximity, we obtained permission to search and that was when we found a gun, a knife, a picture of a hangman's noose hanging in a tree. we brought them to police headquarters downtown and questioned them. and then all of a sudden, a character surf...

Cigarettes, and he was headed to a service station that was just a few blocks away. that was the last time he was seen. nobody saw anything. nobody heard anything. we just started investigating everything we could. the midnight shift officers had discovered the body started relating all of the incidents that occurred throughout the night. there was an issue with a taxi driver that would not respond to his dispatchers. he was last reported on herndon avenue. someone burned a small cross at the back of the courthouse downtown during the early part of the night and then a domestic squabble had ac...

Avenue. simply because of the proximity, we obtained permission to search, and that was when we found a gun, a knife, a picture of a hangman's noose hanging in a tree. we brought them to police headquarters downtown and questioned them, and then all of the sudden, a character surfaced by the name of johnny ray kelly. mr. kelly said on friday night he was five blocks west of herndon avenue on springhill, and he said i was standing out here and up walked jimmy, johnny and ralph. >> kelly claimed that he observed blood on ralph hayes' clothes. ralph told them that he had, quote, jumped a black du...

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...