Apartheid. USA 1988

February 11, 1987:

March 21, 1981, a 19-year-old black, Michael Donald was found hanging from a tree in Mobile, Alabama. Two members of the local United Klans chapter, Klavern 900, were convicted in the case. The slain youth's mother, Beulah Mae Donald and the NAACP started a 10 million dollars civil rights suit against the Klan. The suit contends that Michael Ronald's constitutional rights were violated by Klan intimidation tactics. A witness testified that a Klan leader had called the sight of Michael hanging from a tree

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‘a pretty sight’. The United Klans, with an estimated 2 500 members has its headquarters in Northport on Lake Tuscaloosa.^46.

46. The New York Times, as reported by the Associated Press