This book dramatically chronicles the significant events that led Morris Dees to the front lines of the civil rights struggle and his ongoing crusade against hate groups.This is the story of the courageous and often lonely journey of a skilled and controversial trail lawyer whose career has paralleled a nation's struggle to ensure freedom and ...
For nearly 18 years, Morris Dees, chief trial lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center and its Militia Task Force, has been gathering information and intelligence on the operations of organized groups of racists and far-right extremists through an operation called the Klawatch Project. Information has been gathered from public sources, recorded ...
By all accounts, Morris Dees has had a fascinating life. Son of a tenant farmer and grandson of a Klansman in rural Alabama, he built a multimillion-dollar business and sold it in 1971 to create the Southern Poverty Law Center. He has since become a hero in the civil rights struggle. 8-page photo insert.
Alabaman Morris Dees was almost 30 when he saw the light about racism in America. He became a leading civil rights attorney, and in 1988 he found his biggest target: Tom Metzger, the overlord of the White Aryan Resistance--a well-financed white-supremacist organization--which was tied to the bashing death of an Ethiopian student in Oregon. Here is ...
The diverse and accomplished literary community rooted in Oxford, Mississippi, is celebrated in this collection. Featured is never-before-published work from some of the most respected names in contemporary literature, including Barry Hannah, Larry Brown, William Gay, Tom Franklin, Mark Richard, and Ace Atkins. Several of the contributors step ...
This title presents an insider's record of the St. Augustine Civil Rights drama.This memoir recounts the struggle against segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, in the early and mid 1960s. In the summer of 1964, the nation's oldest city became the center of the civil rights movement as Martin Luther King Jr., encouraged by President Johnson's ...
Grandson of a Klansman, celebrated lawyer Dees narrates a stirring account of the landmark civil suit that bankrupted the Ku Klux Klan and placed its headquarters in the hands of a black woman.
This title takes on terms and expressions that malign gender or sexual orientation, or create controversy and confusion. Many of the words or expressions in this dictionary are recognizeable at once for their bias, others are words we often use without realizing their underlying meaning or without knowing how their meanings have been twisted to ...
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