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Michael Donald is born in Mobile,Alabama to his mother Beulah Mae Donald and his father David Donald
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the son of Beulah Mae (Greggory) Donald and David Donald, and was the youngest of six children
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Morris Dee's created this center to help cases such as ones like Michael Donald
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On Friday night the jurors announced they couldn't reach a verdict for the Josephus Anderson trail, This angered the KKK
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Klan's members were so upset that the trial of a black man who murdered a white man became a mistrial, they went around searching for a black man to kill
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Donald was killed by Henry Hays and James Knowles, young KKK members
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Knowles later confessed to the murder, pleaded guilty and testified against Hays. Hays was sentenced to death.
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Morris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, suggested that Mrs. Donald file a civil suit against the members of Unit 900 and the United Klans of America. later, an all-white jury in Mobile needed to deliberate only four hours before awarding Mrs. Donald $7 million
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Hayes was executed in 1997 in Alabama's electric chair was the first in the state since 1913 for a white-on-black crime.
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Yes, this does effect my current life because now i know that no lynching will occur and if it happens there will be consequences
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Michael Donald himself didn't change society but his mother , Beulah Mae Donald did, she became the first lady ever to make the
KKK go bankrupt and with this she made it possible for no one to have to go through what she went through with the KKK