Transcripts for CNN The People v. The Klan 20240604 06:04:00

while there appeared to be progress, we had the reminders of racialized violence, of murder, of lynching, and we see it most clearly with the murder of michael donald. >> my uncle thomas figures and my father, michael figures, they worked incredibly, incredibly hard to ensure that justice was served in the criminal case. they both knew that that was not going to be enough. the klan was just as much of a threat as it was before the criminal case. and that's when my father teamed up with the morris dees. >> after law school in 1960, when i got to practice in law, there were a lot of violent acts that we saw in the united states. the beating of the freedom riders in birmingham, the violent deaths around mississippi and georgia and alabama and other places, the killing of viola liuzzo committed by what people

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