Racism Around Me

Cited history, on the map where it happened

Lynching & racial terror

The lynching of Michael Donald

21 March 1981Herndon Avenue, Mobile, AL

Klansmen picked a nineteen-year-old at random off a Mobile street, killed him and hanged his body from a tree. His mother's lawsuit bankrupted the United Klans of America.

People killed
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