When Terrorist Cowards Kill :
The Murders of Two Black Men : Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama and Mulugeta Seraw in Portland, Oregon - And the Southern Poverty Law Center
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Southern Poverty Law Center
The Intelligence Project
Tracking the Threat of Hate
Some excerpts :
One of the first important cases combating organized white supremacists that relied on the Project's investigative work was the Michael Donald lynching case in 1981. Nineteen-year-old Donald was on his way to the store when he was abducted, murdered, and hung from a tree on a residential street in Mobile, Alabama.
Intelligence Project investigators gathered evidence against the Klan killers, leading to murder convictions and to a civil suit that destroyed their organization, the United Klans of America.
Intelligence Project investigations also helped the SPLC legal team end a campaign of Klan terror against Vietnamese fishermen in Texas and disarm a paramilitary army of North Carolina Klansmen in 1986.
A 1988 case found two Klan groups – the Southern White Knights and the Invisible Empire Knights of the KKK – and 11 individuals liable for an attack on civil rights activists in Georgia, ordering nearly $1 million in damages. The Invisible Empire, once the nation's largest and most violent Klan group, was forced to disband and give up all its assets, including its name.
In November 1988, Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian man in Portland, Oregon, was beaten to death by a group of teenagers in a heinous racially motivated murder. Though the perpetrators pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison, Project investigators believed the Skinhead attackers were organized and influenced by Tom Metzger, the leader of White Aryan Resistance, an infamous neo-Nazi Skinhead group that recruited young people to form violent gangs.
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Some excerpts :
One of the first important cases combating organized white supremacists that relied on the Project's investigative work was the Michael Donald lynching case in 1981. Nineteen-year-old Donald was on his way to the store when he was abducted, murdered, and hung from a tree on a residential street in Mobile, Alabama.
Intelligence Project investigators gathered evidence against the Klan killers, leading to murder convictions and to a civil suit that destroyed their organization, the United Klans of America.
Intelligence Project investigations also helped the SPLC legal team end a campaign of Klan terror against Vietnamese fishermen in Texas and disarm a paramilitary army of North Carolina Klansmen in 1986.
A 1988 case found two Klan groups – the Southern White Knights and the Invisible Empire Knights of the KKK – and 11 individuals liable for an attack on civil rights activists in Georgia, ordering nearly $1 million in damages. The Invisible Empire, once the nation's largest and most violent Klan group, was forced to disband and give up all its assets, including its name.
In November 1988, Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian man in Portland, Oregon, was beaten to death by a group of teenagers in a heinous racially motivated murder. Though the perpetrators pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison, Project investigators believed the Skinhead attackers were organized and influenced by Tom Metzger, the leader of White Aryan Resistance, an infamous neo-Nazi Skinhead group that recruited young people to form violent gangs.
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