The People v. The Klan - Season 1 - Eps 1: The Lynching
After a Black teenager, Michael Donald, is found lynched in Mobile, Alabama in 1981, and local law enforcement fails to apprehend the killers, Donald’s mother Beulah Mae and Black activists fight for an investigation into the local Klan chapter, which they believe is responsible for the murder.
About The People v. The Klan

Title: The People v. The Klan
First Air Date: 2021-04-12
Last Air Date: 2021-04-20
Status: Ended
Rating: 0/10 (from 0 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 4
Network: CNN
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Blumhouse Television, CNN Documentary Unit
Synopsis
A four-part docuseries about the little-known true story of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Alabama, who took down the Ku Klux Klan after the brutal murder and lynching of her son, Michael. He was just nineteen years old and found dead, hanging from a tree in Mobile, on March 21, 1981. Black community leaders immediately suspected it was a Klan lynching, but local law enforcement was slow to acknowledge that the murder was racially motivated. When the investigation stalled, Beulah Mae and local Black leaders refused to back down until Michael’s killers and the hateful organization they belonged to received justice.