On March 21, 1981, in Mobile, Alabama, 19-year-old Michael Donald was kidnapped, brutally beaten, and lynched by James Knowles and Henry Francis Hays, members of the United Klans of America—an ...

one of the men produced a gun and forced Donald into their car. The two Klansmen, Henry Hays and James “Tiger” Knowles, then took Donald to a secluded location where they beat him, strangled ...

On March 21, 1981, Donald was killed by Henry Hays and James Knowles, young KKK members incensed over the failure of a Mobile jury to convict an African American man charged with the murder of a ...