A Season For Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees
Autobiography
By: Morris Dees and Steve Fiffer
Date: 1991
Source: Dees, Morris, and Steve Fiffer. A Season For Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991, 332–336, 337.
About the Author: Morris Dees (1936–) founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in the early 1970s to defend poor black clients. In 1981, Dees founded Klanwatch, whose goal was to keep an eye on the KKK. In the mid-1980s, Dees sued the United Klan of America, claiming that this group was civilly responsible for promoting the murder of a young black man. Dees won a seven million dollar judgment that essentially closed down the Klan. Dees also has written three books.
Introduction
Racism unfortunately has long been a part of American history. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence with its famous line "all men...
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