On a Friday night back
in March of 1981, nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was walking home alone when
he was abducted, beaten, had his throat slit, and then had his body hung from a
tree branch in Mobile, Alabama. The two
men who were arrested, tried, and convicted of the crime were named Henry Hays
and James Knowles and they were members of the KKK. In his new book The Lynching: the Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan,
journalist, author and historian Laurence Leamer details this shocking act of domestic terrorism and the subsequent
lawsuit and verdict which would level a deadly blow to the Ku Klux Klan. Laurence joins me on the show today to talk
all about the book and the KKK’s lingering effect on race relations in America
today.
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