The People V. The Klan
2021 · CNN · 60 min · 1 season
S01E04 · It Takes a Mother
Mon, 19 Apr, 12:00 pm
Beulah 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 Klans of America, embarking on what they believe will be an extremely difficult task.
About
A four-part docuseries that tells 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 Donald. He was just nineteen years old when he was found dead, hanging from a tree in Mobile, on March 21, 1981. The local Black community immediately suspected it was a Klan lynching, but local law enforcement was slow to acknowledge that the murder was racially motivated. Beulah Mae and local Black leaders refused to back down until Michael's killers and the hateful organization they belonged to were brought to justice.
Episodes
- E01
The Lynching
Mon, 12 Apr· 60 minAfter 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 activists fight for an investigation into the local Klan chapter, which they believe is responsible for the murder.
- E02
Justice for Michael
Mon, 12 Apr· 60 minAfter 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 Michael Donald's murderers.
- E03
Hate on Trial
Mon, 19 Apr· 60 minThe Donald family is put at risk when the Mobile District Attorney charges Henry Hays with the capital murder of Michael Donald.
- E04
It Takes a Mother
Mon, 19 Apr· 60 minBeulah 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 Klans of America, embarking on what they believe will be an extremely difficult task.
