Inside the case that bankrupted the Klan
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At first, Cecelia Perry thought she knew what happened to her younger brother when he failed to return from a late-night trip to a service station on March 20, 1981.
Nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was thoughtful and responsible working at night and watching Perry’s oldest son during the day. He’d been with Perry at another sister’s home in Mobile, Alabama, when he stepped out around 11 p.m. to pick up cigarettes. As the hour grew later with no sign of him, “everybody assumed that he’d gone home to my mom,” Perry says in CNN’s docuseries, “The People v. The Klan.”
Inside the case that bankrupted the Klan
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