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The lynching : the epic courtroom battle that brought down the Klan / Lawrence Leamer.
On a Friday night in March 1981 Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. They were seeking to retaliate after a largely black jury could not reach a verdict in a trial involving a black man accused of the murder of a white man. The two Klansmen found nineteen-year-old Michael Donald walking home alone. Hays and Knowles abducted him, beat him, cut his throat, and left his body hanging from a tree branch in a racially-mixed residential neighborhood.Arrested, charged, and convicted, Hays was sentenced to deaththe first time in nearly a century that the state of Alabama had found a white man guilty of killing a black man. On behalf of Michaels grieving mother, Morris Dees, the legendary civil rights lawyer and co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed a civil suit against the members of the local Klan unit involved and the UKA, the largest Klan organization. Charging them with conspiracy, Dees put the Klan on trial, resulting in a verdict that would level a deadly blow to its organization.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781504735971
- ISBN: 1504735978
- ISBN: 9781504735988
- ISBN: 1504735986
- Physical Description: 9 audio discs (10 hours, 18 minutes) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : Harper Audio, ℗2016
- Manufacturer: [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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| General Note: | Compact discs. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Malcolm Hillgartner. |
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