Beulah Mae Donald
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Beulah Mae Donald | |
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 Donald in 1981 | |
| Born | October 10, 1920 DeLisle, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Died | September 17, 1988 (aged 67) Mobile, Alabama, U.S. |
| Known for | Successfully suing the Ku Klux Klan |
| Children | 7, including Michael Donald |
Beulah Mae Donald (October 10, 1920 – September 17, 1988) was an African-American woman who successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan after her son, Michael Donald, was lynched.
Donald was born on October 10, 1920,[1][2] in DeLisle, Mississippi, to Marion Gregory, a worker in a saw mill, and Mary Gregory, a laundress. The youngest child in a family of eight children, she helped her family and was raised as a devout member of the Southern Baptist Convention. Donald moved to Mobile, Alabama, with her family, where she became pregnant in tenth grade and was forced to leave school and work in a hotel. By the 1960s, Donald had two children and was living as a divorced single mother.[3][4]
Early in that decade, Donald met David Donald and the two were soon married. They had five children before divorcing after David moved to New York City. Beulah initially moved with him, but returned to Mobile after several years to care for her parents.[3][4]
