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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]
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 (SPLC), based in Montgomery, Alabama.
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story (1991) – drama television film based on the true story of Morris Dees, a civil rights lawyer from Alabama, whose Southern Poverty Law Center battles neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan [126]
Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American biographical courtroom drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James Woods.The film is based on the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. [2] Based in Montgomery, Alabama, it is known for its legal cases against white supremacist groups, for its classification of hate groups and other extremist organizations, and for promoting tolerance education programs.
Marnie Andrews (born 1951 in Cedartown, Georgia) is an American stage and television actress ER, JAG, Murder One, "Reasonable Doubts", (with Mark Harmon and Marlee Matlin) (1991-1993), The Wonder Years and made for TV movies "Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story," (1991), Shattered Mind (1996), among others. Much of her stage work comes from the ...
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story: Pat The Flash: Linda Lake Episode: "Beat the Clock" Fire: Trapped on the 37th Floor: Allison Television film Stat: Dr. Willie Burns Episode: "Ladyfinger" The Heroes of Desert Storm: Lieutenant Phoebe Jeter Television film Locked Up: A Mother's Rage: Willie One Special Victory: Lois 1992 Nightmare Cafe ...
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]