Police officers standing guard outside the courtroom of the District Court of Alabama in Mobile during the preliminary hearing about the murder of Michael Donald.
Donald had been murdered by Ku Klux Klan members on March 20, 1981, and his body was hanged from a tree on Herndon Avenue in Mobile. His two killers were arrested in 1983 and were ultimately convicted, but his mother also filed a wrongful death suit against the Klan. In 1987 she was awarded $7 milli...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | Donald had been murdered by Ku Klux Klan members on March 20, 1981, and his body was hanged from a tree on Herndon Avenue in Mobile. His two killers were arrested in 1983 and were ultimately convicted, but his mother also filed a wrongful death suit against the Klan. In 1987 she was awarded $7 million, a financial penalty that bankrupted the organization; in lieu of payments, Mrs. Donald was given the deed to the UKA's national headquarters in Tuscaloosa. |
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