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Morris Seligman Dees Jr. (born December 16, 1936) is an American attorney known as the co-founder and former chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center ...
The SPLC headquarters in Montgomery, Alabama. The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded by civil rights lawyers Morris Dees and Joseph J. Levin Jr. in August 1971 [17] as a law firm originally focused on issues such as fighting poverty, racial discrimination and the death penalty in the US.
Morris Dees (born 1936) – attorney, cofounder, chief legal counsel of Southern Poverty Law Center [45] Karl W. Deutsch (1912–1992) – international political scientist [3] John Dewey (1859–1952) – author of A Common Faith, Unitarian friend [3] Charles Dickens (1812–1870) – English novelist. [46]
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story is a 1991 American drama film directed by John Korty and written by James G. Hirsch and Charles Rosin. The film stars Corbin Bernsen, Jenny Lewis, Sandy Bull, John M. Jackson, Angela Bassett and James Staley. The film premiered on NBC on January 21, 1991. [1] [2] [3]
Hate on Trial: The Case Against America's Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi is a book by Morris Dees and Steve Fiffer recounting the civil trial of Berhanu v. Metzger in which the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League sued Tom Metzger and White Aryan Resistance.
Morris Dees: Southern Poverty Law Center founder [29] Mahala Ashley Dickerson: First black female attorney in Alabama [30] Fred Gray: Attorney, founding member of the Montgomery Improvement Association [31] Richard H. Harris Jr. Prominent civil rights leader, pharmacist and Tuskegee Airmen [32] [33] Vernon Johns: Minister, mentor to early civil ...
Miles Law School is a law school located in Birmingham, Alabama.It is independent of Miles College.. Miles Law School was founded on August 26, 1974. Among the founders were Bishop C. A. Kirkendoll of the C.M.E. Church, Dr. W. Clyde Williams, former president of Miles College, former Alabama Judge and state Senator J. Richmond Pearson, and Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Acting at the request of Beulah Mae Donald, Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, and Michael Figures brought a wrongful death suit in 1984 against the United Klans of America in federal court in the Southern District of Alabama, according to the SPLC. [19]