When Michael Donald, a Black teen, was lynched in Mobile, Alabama, in 1981, his mother Beulah Mae and activists pushed for an investigation into the local Klan.

After Beulah Mae Donald's activism helped re-energize her son's case, investigators tracked down Mobile's Klan chapter and apprehended Michael Donald's killers.

When the Mobile district attorney charged suspect Henry Hays with capital murder for Michael Donald's death, the Donald family found their lives at risk.

Beulah Mae Donald joined forces with the Southern Poverty Law Center to wage a multi-million-dollar civil suit against the United Klans of America.