we move forward with people deciding, i m bold enough, and i m gonna make it change. beulah mae donald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in the united states. this is an incredible story of courage. when beulah mae donald discovers that her son has been hung, strangled and beaten, she seeks to hold the killers of her child accountable. the stakes are high, but the only way to get justice is to pursue the killers in criminal court. i don t know all the negotiations that were involved. i trusted a lawyer, who sold me out, and i ended up getting a plea deal. it was a hard decision.
that s why we kept marching and protesting, telling them we ain t taking this lying down. the admitted klansman turned ashen as the words guilty of capital murder sank in. it was the first time since at least the early 1900s that a white had been sentenced to death for a crime committed against a black person in the state of alabama. beulah mae donald is grieving but also seeking justice for her child. this is a black woman, who has just lost her son to lynching, finds the strength to move forward in a civil suit against the klan in alabama. the stakes could not be higher. the body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree in mobile, alabama. lynching is a tool to control and oppress black people. racialized violence is as old as the constitution. klans are not running around with white sheets over their head, but it s still happening. today, people are horrified at the police.
united states is mourning with me. for him to have died a hero would mean to me than for him to just have died. if that boy whose picture you see there does not die an inconspicuous death, and that his case will be remembered and something will be done about it. we think of mamie till, the courageous black mother of emmett till. and the courage of beulah mae donald, who was unrelenting in trying to get justice for her son is part of a tradition of black women and black mothers in particular who have fought to get their children s death vindicated, but have often been ignored. we want them to go to jail just like we would go to jail for 25 to life. my son said he couldn t breathe 11 times. 11 times he said he couldn t breathe. and they chose not to indict.
head, but it s still happening. today people are horrified to have had police. it s the modern day lynching. what are we going to do about it? we move forward with people deciding i m bold enough and i m going make it change. beulah mae donald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in the united states. this is an incredible story of courage. the body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree in mobile, alabama. living in mobile was a quiet town. it is nothing but oak trees. but after march 1981, it was kind of like creepy to me to
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