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Picketer protesting at the county courthouse in Mobile, Alabama, during the investigation into the murder of Michael Donald.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama

Wheeler, Ron

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He is holding a sign that reads, "On the night of March 20, 1981 a cross was burned on the courthouse lawn, the same night that Michael Donald was hung." Donald had been murdered by Ku Klux Klan members on March 20, 1981, and his body was hanged from a tree on Herndon Avenue in Mobile.
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1982 03 19
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Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by the Alabama Media Group, http://www.alabamamediagroup.com
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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  4. Mobile (Ala.)
  5. Mobile County (Ala.)

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