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Leamer, Laurence.
Subjects
Donald, Michael, 1961-1981 -- Death and burial.
Dees, Morris.
United Klans of America -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Alabama -- History.
Lynching -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Crimes against -- Alabama -- Mobile -- Case studies.
Hate groups -- United States -- History.
Alabama -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Leamer, Laurence.
Donald, Michael, 1961-1981 -- Death and burial.
Dees, Morris.
United Klans of America -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Alabama -- History.
Lynching -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Crimes against -- Alabama -- Mobile -- Case studies.
Hate groups -- United States -- History.
Alabama -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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The lynching : the epic courtroom battle that brought down the Klan / Laurence Leamer.
by
Leamer, Laurence.
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, [2016]
Call #:
364.134 L436L
Subjects
Donald, Michael, 1961-1981
--
Death and burial.
Dees, Morris.
United
Klans
of
America
--
Trials
,
litigation
,
etc
.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
--
Alabama
--
History.
Lynching
--
Alabama
--
History
--
20th century.
Racism
--
Alabama
--
History
--
20th century.
Blacks
--
Crimes against
--
Alabama
--
Mobile
--
Case studies.
Hate groups
--
United
States
--
History.
Alabama
--
Race relations
--
History
--
20th century.
ISBN:
9780062458346 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
x, 372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-358) and index.
Contents:
Prologue: fists against the earth
--
Night of the Burning Cross. Klan business ; A public display ; Thirteen knots ; "Good job, Tiger" ; A precious enclave ; The Klan's signature ; The value of things ; Bloody nails ; An open casket ; A major injustice ; Missionary work ; Prayers in the night ; A lesser crime ; Black sheep ; A capital offense ; The second-most-hated man ; A matter of justice ; "The forces of evil" ; "Sizzling of the flesh" ; A verdict
--
A Time of Judgment. "Where in the hell" ; Sunday school ; Turning back the tide ; "Who is Shelton?" ; The day of reckoning ; Freedom rides ; A personal brawl ; Riding again ; Eternal vigilance ; The schoolhouse door ; Good working people ; "Seeds of hate" ; A race thing ; Scrawny pine ; A follower of Christ ; A pain in the stomach ; A political prisoner ; Never ; Censored ; Lowering the boom ; Private matters ; Fighting the fight ; A wannabe
--
Roll Call of Justice. "Novel, but unlikely" ; An eye for an eye ; A clear and powerful message ; Natural consequences ; A book of prophecy ; "As you lie, you forget" ; Intruders in the night ; "Blood will flow" ; Shots in the night ; The end of an era ; Sending a signal ; Curveballs ; "Nice job, Daddy"; Purity of the race ; A jury of one's peers ; Trading places ; "That's my mom" ; Remembrance ; A question of justice ; Death has no hold.
Summary:
"A brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent
trials
that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history - the Ku Klux Klan. 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 death - the first time in more than half a century that the state of Alabama sentenced a white man to death for killing a black man. On behalf of Michael's grieving mother, Morris Dees, the legendary civil rights lawyer and cofounder 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. The Lynching brings to life two dramatic
trials
, during which the Alabama Klan's motives and philosophy were exposed for the evil they represent."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
True crime.
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