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The People V. The Klan Season 1 Episodes

  • 2021-2021
  • 1 Season
  • CNN
  • Documentary
  • TVMA
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The People V. The Klan is a four-part docuseries about the little-known true story of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Alabama, who took down the Ku Klux Klan after the brutal murder and lynching of her son, Michael. He was just nineteen years old and found dead, hanging from a tree in Mobile, on March 21, 1981. Black community leaders immediately suspected it was a Klan lynching, but local law enforcement was slow to acknowledge that the murder was racially motivated.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

4 Episodes 2021 - 0

Episode 1

The Lynching

Sun, Apr 11, 2021 60 mins

After a Black teenager, Michael Donald, is found lynched in Mobile, AL in 1981, and local law enforcement fail to apprehend the killers, Donald's mother Beulah Mae and Black activists fight for an investigation into the local Klan chapter.

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Episode 2

Justice for Michael

Sun, Apr 11, 2021 60 mins

After Beulah Mae Donald's activism and widespread community pressure re-energizes her son's case, federal and local investigators race to find Mobile's Klan chapter and apprehend Michael Donald's murderers.

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Episode 3

Hate on Trial

Sun, Apr 18, 2021 60 mins

The Donald family is put at risk when the Mobile District Attorney charges Henry Hays with the capital murder of Michael Donald.

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Episode 4

It Takes a Mother

Sun, Apr 18, 2021 60 mins

Beulah Mae Donald and her attorney Michael Figures join forces with Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center to wage a multi-million-dollar civil suit against the United Klans of America.

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