In 1981 a Mobile mother of six was forced into the role of civil rights activist when the Klan murdered her son and she was moved to fight back.
This episode tells the powerful and heartbreaking story of Bula May Donald, an Alabama woman who took on the Ku Klux Klan in civil court after her 19-year-old son Michael was brutally murdered by Klan members in 1981. Despite facing a system that initially tried to sweep the case under the rug and falsely characterize her son as a drug dealer, Bula May relentlessly pursued justice and eventually sued the Klan as an organization for depriving Black citizens of their constitutional rights. The episode explores how her groundbreaking civil lawsuit resulted in a seven-million-dollar judgment that essentially bankrupted the violent United Klans of America chapter and led to criminal convictions for multiple Klan members involved in the crime and cover-up.
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