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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
By Leamer, Laurence
- ISBN
- 9780062458346 9780062458353
- Publisher
- Morrow
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Reviewed on April 15, 2016 | Social Sciences
In 1981, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered African American Michael Donald in Mobile, AL. Their prosecution and a subsequent civil lawsuit dealt a fatal blow to the largest U.S. Klan organization and effectively ended the protected status of the group and its members in Alabama. Leamer (The Price of Justice; The Kennedy Women) explores the tragic murder, drawing sad and telling details from interviews and court records...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
