Deciding i m bold enough and i m going 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 is nothing but oak trees. But after march 1981, it was kind of like creepy to me to 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 momma, beulah mae donald was a quiet woman. She was a goodhearted person. All the neighborhoods we have lived in, everybody loved her. Ms. Donald was a very liked person because of her personality. She volunteered her time working with children, a model mother. Michael was my brother. Michael was well loved. He was quiet. He worked at night and he kept my oldest son during the daytime. Michael was a wellmannered and a polite young man. Michael is a true examp
have had 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 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 is nothing but oak trees. but after march 1981, it was kind of like creepy to me to 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 momma, beulah mae donald, was a quiet woman. she was a good-hearted person. all the neighborhoods we have lived in, everybody loved her. ms. donald was a very liked person because of her personality. she volunteered her time working with children, a model mother. michael was my brother. michael was well loved. he was quiet. h
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.
Was. michael donald was an innocent, good samaritan. not a thug. so we obtained permission to search michael s room, and basically found nothing in his bedroom. we knew the kind of young man he was. we knew the kind of family he had. some people were trying to say that we don t think it s an issue that has anything to do with violation of civil rights. we don t think it has anything to do with race. we think that was something, a drug deal that went bad or something. we knew that wasn t the case. you couldn t convince anybody in the black community. so we had to just live and walk through it, because we knew that he was just an innocent person. he was innocent in this. they tried to deviate from the truth to take the attention from what really happened.