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After a Black teenager, Michael Donald, is found lynched in Mobile, AL in 1981, and local law enforcement fail to apprehend the killers, Donald s mother Beulah.
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 of the 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 to 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.
and i know ms. donald couldn t have helped but have seen that picture when it was passed on to the jury. at the end of the trial, he looked over at ms. donald. he looked at her sitting there at that table. he said that his own family had turned against him. and he also said he didn t have a family. and to know that somebody cared something about someone, it made him have a deep feeling in his heart that he felt sorry. i told her that i was sorry, and that if i could, i would take her son s place. that s when he asked me would i forgive him. what did you say? oh yes, i had already did that. you had already forgiven him? yes sir, i had already asked the lord to take it in his hand.