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Women's History Month: How Mobile mother Beulah Mae Donald bankrupted the Ku Klux Klan
Summary by Ground News
Beulah Mae Donald was a mother of seven, who lived in public housing in Mobile when her son, 19-year-old Michael Donald was killed. Donald was murdered by a group of Klansmen. In 1984 she filed a lawsuit against the United Klans of America in civil court and won. The Klan was ordered to pay damages of $7 million, bankrupting the organization.