Lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama on March 21, 1981 : information file. [1981-
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Michigan State University. Libraries. American Radicalism Collection.
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Donald, Michael, 1961-1981
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On March 21, 1981, James "Tiger" Knowles and Henry Francis Hays, local members of the United Klans of America, lynched Michael Donald. In retribution for the mistrial of a black man accused of killing a white police officer in Birmingham, Hays and Knowles took Donald's body and hung it from a tree on Herndon Avenue near his home. The investigation into the murder stalled for over a year until, after prodding from Thomas Figures, the assistant U.S. attorney in Mobile, the local division of the Fe...
Ku Klux Klan 1915-....
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The Ku Klux Klan was formally incorporated under the laws of the state of Georgia on Dec. 4, 1915. The incorporated organization is a continuance of the earlier post Civil War Reconstruction Era unincorporated Ku Klux Klan and of the Knights of the White Camellia. Women of the Ku Klux Klan was incorporated at a late date as a separate entity. The stated purpose of the KKK was to promote an all White, Protestant United States, excluding all other races and religions. From the descript...
