The People v. The Klan
A four-part docuseries about the little-known true story of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Alabama, who took down the Ku Klux Klan after the brutal murder and lynching of her son, Michael. He was just nineteen years old and found dead, hanging from a tree in Mobile, on March 21, 1981. Black community leaders immediately suspected it was a Klan lynching, but local law enforcement was slow to acknowledge that the murder was racially motivated. When the investigation stalled, Beulah Mae and local Black leaders refused to back down until Michael’s killers and the hateful organization they belonged to received justice.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.The Lynching
12-04-2021After a Black teenager, Michael Donald, is found lynched in Mobile, Alabama in 1981, and local law enforcement fails to apprehend the killers, Donald’s mother Beulah Mae and Black...
- Ep 2
2.Justice for Michael
13-04-2021After Beulah Mae Donald’s activism and widespread community pressure re-energizes her son’s case, federal and local investigators race to find Mobile’s Klan chapter and apprehend M...
- Ep 3
3.Hate on Trial
19-04-2021The Donald family is put at risk when the Mobile District Attorney charges Henry Hays with the capital murder of Michael Donald.
- Ep 4
4.It Takes a Mother
20-04-2021Beulah Mae Donald and her attorney Michael Figures join forces with Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center to wage a multi-million-dollar civil suit against the United Kla...
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