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#IDedicateThisWeekTo Beulah Mae Donald, who won a $7 million judgment from the Ku Klux Klan after Klansmen murdered her son.
'She'll forever have a place in history as the woman who beat the Klan,' said Morris Dees.
'She'll forever have a place in history as the woman who beat the Klan,' said Morris Dees.
''I wanted to know who all really killed my child,'' she said. ''I wasn't even thinking about the money. If I hadn't gotten a cent, it wouldn't have mattered. I wanted to know how and why they did it.''
Beulah Mae Donald
Beulah Mae Donald
From the moment she insisted on an open casket for her battered son—''so the world could know'' - she challenged the silence of the Klan &the recalcitrance of the criminal justice system..All she ever wanted, she says,was to prove that ''Michael did no wrong.''
Beulah Mae Donald
Beulah Mae Donald
Beulah Mae Donald gained nat’l attn when she successfully sued the United Klansof America &was awarded $7 million in the death of her son, Michael, 19, March 1981.
He was beaten &strangled by KKK members &later was hanged from a tree in a racially mixed neighborhood in Mobile.
He was beaten &strangled by KKK members &later was hanged from a tree in a racially mixed neighborhood in Mobile.
Beulah Mae Donald’s refusal to back down changed the options for victims of hate crimes and their families..
..the lawsuit also discouraged other Klan hate crimes. Though Klan members do still commit crimes, no one else has been lynched in the United States since Michael Donald.
..the lawsuit also discouraged other Klan hate crimes. Though Klan members do still commit crimes, no one else has been lynched in the United States since Michael Donald.
Beulah Mae Donald's determination inspired a handful of lawyers &civil rts advocates,black &white.[She filed]a civil suit vs the members of Unit 900 &United Klans of America. The killers were..carrying out an organizational policy set by group's Imperial Wizard, Robert Shelton.
