The Lynching

  • Autor: Laurence Leamer
  • Narrador: Malcolm Hillgartner
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 10:18:43
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Sinopse

The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history—the Ku Klux Klan.

On a Friday night in March 1981 Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. They were seeking to retaliate after a largely black jury could not reach a verdict in a trial involving a black man accused of the murder of a white man. The two Klansmen found nineteen-year-old Michael Donald walking home alone. Hays and Knowles abducted him, beat him, cut his throat, and left his body hanging from a tree branch in a racially mixed residential neighborhood.

Arrested, charged, and convicted, Hays was sentenced to death—the first time in more than half a century that the state of Alabama sentenced a white man to death for killing a black man. On behalf of Michael’s grieving mother, Morris Dees, the legendary civil rights lawyer and cofounder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed a civil suit against the members of the local Klan unit involved and the UKA, the largest Klan organization. Charging them with conspiracy, Dees put the Klan on trial, resulting in a verdict that would level a deadly blow to its organization.

Based on numerous interviews and extensive archival research, The Lynching brings to life two dramatic trials, during which the Alabama Klan’s motives and philosophy were exposed for the evil they represent. In addition to telling a gripping and consequential story, Laurence Leamer chronicles the KKK and its activities in the second half the twentieth century, and illuminates its lingering effect on race relations in America today.

The Lynching includes sixteen pages of black-and-white photographs.

Capítulos

  • 041 Chapter 39

    Duração: 12min
  • 042 Chapter 40

    Duração: 06min
  • 043 Chapter 41

    Duração: 16min
  • 044 Chapter 42

    Duração: 07min
  • 045 Chapter 43

    Duração: 08min
  • 046 Chapter 44

    Duração: 05min
  • 047 Chapter 45

    Duração: 07min
  • 048 Chapter 46

    Duração: 05min
  • 049 Chapter 47

    Duração: 05min
  • 050 Chapter 48

    Duração: 08min
  • 051 Chapter 49

    Duração: 10min
  • 052 Chapter 50

    Duração: 03min
  • 053 Chapter 51

    Duração: 09min
  • 054 Chapter 52

    Duração: 17min
  • 055 Chapter 53

    Duração: 06min
  • 056 Chapter 54

    Duração: 12min
  • 057 Chapter 55

    Duração: 09min
  • 058 Chapter 56

    Duração: 11min
  • 059 Chapter 57

    Duração: 12min
  • 060 Chapter 58

    Duração: 02min
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