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 several 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. Racial violence is as old as the constitution. Klans are not running around with white sheets over their head, but its still happening. Today people are horrified of the police. It is the modern day lynching. What are we going to do about it. We move forward with people deciding im bold enough, and im going to make it change. Beulah mae donald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in the United States. This was an incr
Ashen as the words guilty of Capital Murder sank in. It was the first time 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 its still happening. Today people are horrified of the police. Its the modernday lynching. What are we going to do about it . We move forward with people deciding im bold enough, and im going to make it change. Beulah mae donald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in the United States. This is an
someone has taken a young man, hung him in a tree. who would do something this hideous? michael donald was an innocent good samaritan, not a thug. the mobile police department just didn t want to believe that mobile would still have klan in it. but they did. that s why we kept marching and protesting, letting them know we were going to take this lion down. the admitted klansmen turned to action 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 s 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 oppr
no justice? no peace! no justice? no peace! and if we don t get no justice, there ain t going to be no damn peace. that s the bottom line. there is a level of mental illness that has been inflicted upon our society that can no longer stand. and it didn t just start today, but it is at a critical point. when you get too far away from your history, then you re unable to understand the moment we re in and the direction that we can continue to go in if we don t stop. lynching became a tool used by both white citizenry as well as law enforcement to control and oppress black people.
Your history, then you re unable to understand the moment we re in and the direction that we can continue to go in if we don t stop. lynching became a tool used by both white citizenry as well as law enforcement, to control and oppress black people. while there appeared to be progress, we had the reminders of racialized violence, of murder, of lynching, and we see it most clearly with the murder of michael donald. my uncle, thomas figures and my father, michael figures, they worked incredibly, incredibly hard to ensure that justice was served in the criminal case. they both knew that that was not going to be enough. the klan was just as much of a