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I was born in 1951. On Feb. 9, 1964, at the age of 13, I got to see The Beatlesâ first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on our black and white TV. It would be another four years before the lynching of Black men in America would come to an end. With the exception of the 1981 lynching of Michael Donald, 19, who was accused of killing a white police officer.
Members of the Christian radical right-wing organization the Ku Klux Klan found Donald, beat him, cut him and hanged him. The murder was discovered and a $7 million lawsuit was filed against the KKK, thus finally forcing this hideous organization into bankruptcy. However, shutting down the KKK did not shut down the fear that caused white men to hide under a hood.
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