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. the body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree in mobile, alabama. living in mobile was a quiet town. it s nothing but old trees. but after march 1981, it was kind of, like, creepy to me to just look at the trees. the hurt is still there. the hurt my mom went through, i just visualize her face and i go, like, i can t talk about it today. my mama, beulah mae donald, was a quiet woman. she was a good-hearted person. all the neighbor
johnny ray kelly was lying. somehow he got enough information that he could concoct this story about seeing the edgar brothers and ralph on spring hill avenue. we come to find out, he was facing burglary charges. he was looking for help. but i suspect he was manipulated by somebody else. we originally arrested the wrong people, and that s on me. that was my mistake. i went into a courtroom and moved to have the charges dismissed against them. i wanted to make sure that the black community understood that we were doing all that we could.
when the likely suspects were identified, and then a person who lived in the neighborhood came forward and changed the entire case. well, in essence, johnny ray kelly was lying. we had been duped. johnny ray kelly was lying. somehow he got enough
downtown during the early part of the night, and then a domestic squabble had actually occurred over on dolphin street, which is three blocks away. there were three male subjects involved, ralph eugene hayes, and jimmy and johnny edgar. mr. hayes had failed to come home from work that evening. hayes lived at 115 herndon avenue. simply because of the proximity, we obtained permission to search and that was when we found a gun, a knife, a picture of a hangman s noose hanging in a tree. we brought them to police headquarters downtown and questioned them. and then all of a sudden, a character surfaced by the name of johnny ray kelly. mr. kelly said that on friday night, he was five blocks west of herndon avenue on spring hill, and he said, i was standing out here and up walked jimmy, johnny, and ralph. kelly claimed that he observed blood on ralph hayes s clothes.
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