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An interview with Morris Dees
with Morris Dees on May 3, 1995
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with Morris Dees on May 3, 1995
Morris Seligman Dees, Jr. is the American founder and chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). He founded the Center in 1971, the start of a legal career dedicated to suing what they consider hate groups and pursuing controversial cases. His most famous cases have involved landmark damage awards that have driven several prominent neo-Nazi groups into bankruptcy, effectively causing them to disband and re-organize under different names and different leaders.
In 1981, Dees successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan and won a seven million dollar settlement. In 1991 he won a judgment of $12 million against Tom Metzger White Aryan Resistance. He was also instrumental in the rewarding of a $6.5 million judgment against Aryan Nations in 2001, which splintered that group as well. The story of Dees’ crusade against white supremacist hate groups was fictionalized in a 1991 TV movie entitled ‘Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story’.
Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Dees
