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How a Detective Who Was Blamed for One Lynching Solved Another

‘A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE SCENE’
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Mobile, Alabama, sold itself as a place that was different than other Southern towns and racially tranquil. That wasn’t the experience of police officer Wilbur Williams.

Forty years seems like a long time but if Michael Donald hadn’t been lynched on March 21, 1981, he wouldn’t even be 60 years old yet.

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