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Encyclopedia > Southern Poverty Law Center
Southern Poverty Law Center
Type non-profit organization
Founded 1971, Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
Headquarters Montgomery, Alabama
Key people Morris Dees, Director
Industry Civil rights law
Website www.splcenter.org

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American non-profit legal organization, whose stated purpose is to combat racism and promote civil rights through research, education and litigation. The Center has been described as a "a controversial, liberal organization" [1] as it occasionally involves itself in broader issues such as the separation of church and state [2]. Image File history File links Obtained from http://www. ... A non-profit organization (abbreviated NPO, or non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support an issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes, without concern for monetary profit. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar, known as the year of cyclohexanol. ... Coordinates: , Country State County Montgomery Incorporated December 3, 1819 Government  - Mayor Bobby Bright Area  - City  156. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... Coordinates: , Country State County Montgomery Incorporated December 3, 1819 Government  - Mayor Bobby Bright Area  - City  156. ... Morris Seligman Dees, Jr. ... Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Manifestations Slavery Racial profiling Lynching Hate speech Hate crime Genocide (examples) Ethnocide Ethnic cleansing Pogrom Race war Religious persecution Blood libel Paternalism Police brutality Movements Policies Discriminatory Race / Religion / Sex segregation Apartheid Redlining Internment Ethnocracy Anti-discriminatory Emancipation Civil rights Desegregation Integration Equal opportunity Counter-discriminatory Affirmative action Racial quota... Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ... This article is about the concept. ... A lawsuit is a civil action brought before a court in order to recover a right, obtain damages for an injury, obtain an injunction to prevent an injury, or obtain a declaratory judgment to prevent future legal disputes. ...


The Center is based in Montgomery, Alabama, in the Southern United States. It was founded in 1971 by Morris Dees, Joseph J. Levin Jr., and civil rights leader Julian Bond as a civil rights law firm.[3] It is known for its tolerance programs, its many legal victories against white supremacist individuals and groups, and its investigations of alleged hate groups. In addition to free legal service to the victims of discrimination and hate crime, the Center publishes a quarterly Intelligence Report which investigates extremism and hate crimes in the United States. The Center has been criticized for its tactics and financial practices.[4] Coordinates: , Country State County Montgomery Incorporated December 3, 1819 Government  - Mayor Bobby Bright Area  - City  156. ... Historic Southern United States. ... Morris Seligman Dees, Jr. ... Joe Levin, a co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center with Morris Dees, worked as its legal director from 1971 to 1976. ... Julian Bond (2004) Horace Julian Bond (born January 14, 1940) is an American leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. ... It has been suggested that toleration be merged into this article or section. ... White supremacy is a racist ideology which holds the belief that white people are superior to other races. ... A hate group is an organized group or movement that advocates hate, hostility, or violence towards members of a race, ethnicity, religion, gender or other designated sector of society, or that supports and publishes assertions and argumentation characteristic of hate groups without necessarily explicitly advocating such hate or violence that... Extremism is a term used to describe the actions or ideologies of individuals or groups outside the perceived political center of a society; or otherwise claimed to violate common standards of ethics and reciprocity. ... A Jewish cemetery in France after being defaced by Neo-Nazis. ...

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History

The Southern Poverty Law Center was organized by Dees and Levin in 1971 during a desegregation case (Smith v. Young Men's Christian Association[5]), as a law firm to handle anti-discrimination cases in the United States. The organization's first president was Julian Bond, formerly of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Bond served as president of the SPLC until 1979 and remains on its board of directors. In 1979 the Center brought the first of its many cases against the Ku Klux Klan. In 1981 the Center began its "Klanwatch" (now "Hatewatch") project to monitor and track the activities of the KKK, which has been expanded to include seven other types of hate organizations.[6] Desegregation is the process of ending racial segregation, most commonly used in reference to the United States. ... YMCAs in the United States and Canada use this logo. ... Julian Bond (2004) Horace Julian Bond (born January 14, 1940) is an American leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. ... The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (or SNCC, pronounced snick) was one of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. ... Chairman of the Board redirects here. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ...

Southern Poverty Law Center Headquarters in Montgomery, Alabama.

In July 1983 the Klan firebombed the center's office destroying the building and records.[7] Federal investigators said "the intruders went to work quickly, dousing files, desks and carpets with a petroleum based liquid, perhaps gasoline mixed with motor oil or diesel fuel and concentrating on the four corners of the 6,000-square-foot building."[7] In February 1985 Klan members and a Klan sympathizer pled guilty to federal and state charges to the fire.[8] At the trial, "Joe M. Garner and Roy T. Downs Jr., identified as klansmen, and Charles Bailey pleaded guilty to a two-count information charging them with conspiring to threaten, oppress and intimidate members of black organizations represented by the law center."[8] Over 30 people have been jailed in connection with plots to kill Dees or blow up the center.[9] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 192 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Southern Poverty Law Center. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 192 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Southern Poverty Law Center. ... Molotov cocktail is the generic name for a variety of crude incendiary weapons. ...


That same year, Dees became the primary assassination target of The Order, a revolutionary white supremacist group, for his work with the SPLC.[10] Radio host Alan Berg was killed by the group outside his Colorado home; he was the number two on its list.[11] The Order, also known as the Brüder Schweigen or Silent Brotherhood, was a neo-Nazi organization active in the United States between 1983 and 1984. ... Alan Berg on the air shortly before his assassination. ...


In 1987 the group won a case against the United Klans of America.[12] This included a $7 million judgment for the mother of Michael Donald, a black lynching victim in Alabama.[12] In 1987 the Klan again targeted Dees and planned to bomb the SPLC.[13] United Klans of America was a Ku Klux Klan organization led by Robert Shelton, which peaked popularity in the late 1960s. ... The lynching of Michael Donald, 1981. ...

The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama.

In 1989 the Center unveiled its Civil Rights Memorial designed by Maya Lin.[14] The Center's "Teaching Tolerance" project was initiated in 1991, and its "Klanwatch" program has gradually expanded to include other "anti-hate" monitoring projects and a list of reported "hate groups" in the United States. The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama is a memorial to 40 people who died in the struggle for equal and integrated treatment of people of European and African descent. ... Coordinates: , Country State County Montgomery Incorporated December 3, 1819 Government  - Mayor Bobby Bright Area  - City  156. ... The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama is a memorial to 40 people who died in the struggle for equal and integrated treatment of people of European and African descent. ... Visitors at Vietnam Veterans Memorial Maya Ying Lin (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; born October 5, 1959) is an American artist who has become known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. ...


In October 1990, the SPLC won $12.5 million in damages against Tom Metzger and his White Aryan Resistance when a Portland, Oregon, jury held the neo-Nazi group liable in the beating death of an Ethiopian immigrant.[15] While Meztger lost his home and will not be publishing anymore material, the full amount of the multi-million dollar reward was not recovered.[16] In 1995 a group of four white males were indicted for plans to blow up the SPLC.[17] This article does not cite any references or sources. ... WARs Hate and Fear logo The White Aryan Resistance is a neo-Nazi white supremacist organization founded and led by former Ku Klux Klan leader and well known pedophile piece of human excrement Tom Metzger. ...


A 1996 USA Today article claimed that the Southern Poverty Law Center is "the nation's richest civil rights organization", with $68 million in assets at the time.[18] Starting in 1971, the SPLC set aside money for its endowment in future programs, which is currently $111 million in order "to carry on the struggle for tolerance and justice — for as long as it is needed."[19] USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. ... This article is about the business definition. ... A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, with the stipulation that it be invested, and the principal remain intact. ...


In May 1998, three white supremacists were arrested for planning a nationwide campaign of assassinations and bombings targeting "Morris Dees, an undisclosed federal judge in Illinois, a black radio-show host in Missouri, Dees's Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, and the Anti-Defamation League in New York."[20] Several neo-Nazi groups held a rally in front of SPLC headquarters in early 2003.[21] The Simon Wiesenthal Center The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish organization that declares itself to be a human rights group dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. ... The Anti-Defamation League (or ADL) is an interest group founded in 1913 by Bnai Brith in the United States whose stated aim is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. ... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ...


In July 2007, the SPLC filed suit against the Imperial Klans of America (IKA) in Meade County, where in July 2006 five Klansmen savagely beat Jordan Gruver, a 16-year-old boy of Panamanian descent at a Kentucky county fair.[22] Since filing the suit the SPLC has received nearly a dozen threats "promising the most dangerous threat" ever faced.[22] A July 29 letter allegedly came from Hal Turner, a white supremacist talk show host.[22] The Imperial Klans of America Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is one of several modern white supremacist organizations styled after the original Ku Klux Klan. ... Meade County is the name of several counties in the United States: Meade County, Kansas Meade County, Kentucky Meade County, South Dakota This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... is the 210th day of the year (211th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Harold Hal Turner is an American, self-described white nationalist Internet radio talk show host from North Bergen, New Jersey. ...


Tolerance.org

The SPLC's initiatives include the website Tolerance.org. The website has been a past winner of a Webby Award which is a set of awards presented to the "world's best websites."[23] The website houses multiple initiatives: Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the Webby Awards are a set of awards presented to the worlds best websites. The awards have been given out since 1996. ...

  • Daily news about groups and individuals working for tolerance and fighting hate;
  • Guidebooks for adult and youth activists;
  • Practical resources for parents and teachers; ("Teaching Tolerance")[24] and
  • Entertaining and educational games for young children.

According to the SPLC "Teaching Tolerance provides educators with free educational materials that promote respect for differences and appreciation of diversity in the classroom and beyond."[25]


"Teaching Tolerance" is aimed at two different age groups of students with separate materials for teachers and parents. One portion of the project targets elementary school children, providing informational material on the history of the civil rights movement.[26] The center's material for children includes a publication entitled "A fresh look at multicultural 'American English'" that explores the cultural history of common words. A project website designed for elementary school children includes an interactive program that allows users to "explore" political topics such as school mascots with Native American names, the Confederate flag, and popular music and entertainment. It alleges that many of these highlighted events exhibit cases of racial, gender, and sexual orientation insensitivity. This article is about the people indigenous to the United States. ... The following are the flags used by the short-lived Confederate States of America. ... Gender in common usage refers to the sexual distinction between male and female. ... Sexual orientation refers to the direction of an individuals sexuality, usually conceived of as classifiable according to the sex or gender of the persons whom the individual finds sexually attractive. ...


A similar educational program aimed at teenagers in the middle and high school age groups includes a "Mix it Up" project urging readers to participate in various school activities that encourage interaction between different social groups.[27] Other features of the teenager educational project include political activism tips and reports highlighting examples of student activism. A monthly SPLC publication for teens promotes a highlighted political movement, normally focusing on minority, feminist, and LGBT youth organizations. The program also provides publications to students such as "Ways to fight hate on campus" suggesting ideas for community activism and diversity education. Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... The initialism LGBT also GLBT is in use (since the 1990s) to refer collectively to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people. ... Recently diversity has been used in a political context to justify recruiting international students or employees. ...


"Teaching Tolerance" also provides advice and materials for parents aimed at encouraging multiculturalism in the upbringing of their children. [2] A guide published by the project urges parents to "examine the 'diversity profile' for your children's friends," move to "integrated and economically diverse neighborhoods," and discourage children from playing with toys or adopting heroes that "promote violence." The publication also advises parents on the use of culturally sensitive language such as promoting gender-neutral phrasings such as "Someone Special Day" instead of the traditional Mothers Day or Fathers Day and urges them to ensure "cultural diversity reflected in your home's artwork, music and literature." The term multiculturalism generally refers to a state of both cultural and ethnic diversity within the demographics of a particular social space. ... Mothers Day is a holiday that commemorates mothers that is celebrated in many countries around the world, generally in the month of May. ... Fathers Day is a holiday to celebrate fatherhood and parenting by males, as Mothers Day celebrates motherhood and mothering. ...


Documentaries

The SPLC also produces documentary films. Two have won Academy Awards for documentary short subject: "Mighty Times: The Children's March," in 2005[3], and "A Time for Justice, America's Civil Rights Movement" in 1995.[4] Five others have been nominated. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...


Notable cases

The Southern Poverty Law Center provides free legal services to the victims of hate crime, and has won many notable civil cases with large money awards for the plaintiffs.[28][29] In addition to providing free magazines and videos on race relations to more than 50,000 schools, Dees and the SPLC "have been credited with devising innovative legal ways to cripple hate groups, including seizing their assets."[30] This article is about civil law within the common law legal system. ...


The first SPLC case was filed against the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Montgomery, Alabama who "continued to segregate children, going so far as to ban kids who swam at an integrated pool from city-wide meets." In 1969, the YMCA refused to allow two African American children to its summer camp, and the SPLC sued on behalf of the children's parents.[31] In the course of SPLC's lawsuit, Dees "uncovered a secret 1958 agreement between the city and the YMCA in which city officials gave the YMCA control of many city recreational activities."[31] In 1972 the court ruled that Montgomery had given the YMCA control with a "municipal character," and "ordered the YMCA to stop its discriminatory, segregationist practices."[31] YMCAs in the United States and Canada use this logo. ... Coordinates: , Country State County Montgomery Incorporated December 3, 1819 Government  - Mayor Bobby Bright Area  - City  156. ...


In 1981 the SPLC took the Klan to court to stop racial harassment and intimidation against Vietnamese fisherman.[32][33] In May 1981 the courts sided with the Vietnamese fisherman and the SPLC, forcing the Klan to end harassment.[34] Also in 1981 the SPLC won a case which "ordered an Alabama county to pay salaries to the staff of its first black probate judge, continuing a practice that, in violation of state law, had been in use for more than two decades."[35]

An inflammatory cartoon that was used as evidence in the civil trial resulting from Michael Donald's murder.
An inflammatory cartoon that was used as evidence in the civil trial resulting from Michael Donald's murder.

In 1987 the SPLC successfully brought a civil case, on behalf of the victims family, against the United Klans of America (UKA) for the 1981 lynching of Michael Donald, a nineteen year old black man in Mobile, Alabama.[36] Unable to come up the $7 million awarded by the jury, the UKA were forced to turn over its national headquarters to Donald's mother, who then sold it and used the money to purchase her first house.[37] Image File history File links KKK cartoon used in the trial of the lynchers of Michael Donald. ... Image File history File links KKK cartoon used in the trial of the lynchers of Michael Donald. ... The lynching of Michael Donald, 1981. ... United Klans of America was a Ku Klux Klan organization led by Robert Shelton, which peaked popularity in the late 1960s. ... The lynching of Michael Donald, 1981. ... Nickname: Coordinates: , Country State County Mobile Founded 1702 Incorporated 1814 Government  - Mayor Sam Jones Area  - City 412. ...


On November 13, 1988 three white supremacists who were members of East Side White Pride and White Aryan Resistance beat Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian man who came to the United States to attend college, to death.[38] In October 1990 the SPLC won a civil case on behalf of the deceased's family against WAR's operator Tom Metzger and Tom's son, John Metzger for a total of $12.5 million.[39][40] The SPLC does not charge for their work, and Seraw did not share any money won with the SPLC because the Metzger's did not have millions, but rather the family only received assets from the Metzger's $125,000 house and a few thousand dollars.[41] The Metzgers declared bankrupcty, and WAR went out of business. The cost of trial, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars[42] was absorbed by the SPLC and the Anti-Defamation League.[43] Metzger still makes payments to Seraw's family.[44] is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... WARs Hate and Fear logo The White Aryan Resistance is a neo-Nazi white supremacist organization founded and led by former Ku Klux Klan leader and well known pedophile piece of human excrement Tom Metzger. ... Mulugeta Seraw is an Ethiopian student who came to the United States to attend college and was killed in 1988 in Portland, Oregon by a Skinhead gang trained in WARs (White Aryan Resistance) methods. ... The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Ityopiya, Amharic ኢትዮጵያ) is a country situated in the Horn of Africa. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Anti-Defamation League (or ADL) is an interest group founded in 1913 by Bnai Brith in the United States whose stated aim is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. ...


In May 1991 Harold Mansfield Jr., a black sailor / war veteran in the United States Navy, was murdered by a member of the neo-Nazi Church of the Creator (now called the Creativity Movement) (COTC). SPLC represented the victim's family in a civil case winning a judgement of $1 million from the church in March 1994.[45] However, the church transferred ownership to William Pierce, head of the National Alliance, to avoid money being paid to Mansfield's heirs; the SPLC filed suit against Pierce for his role in the fraudulent scheme, and won an $85,000 judgment in 1995.[46] The amount was upheld on appeal and the money was collected prior to Pierce's death in 2002.[46] According to a former member of the Alliance when SPLC sued Pierce was worried it would be the end of the hate group.[47] USN redirects here. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... William Luther Pierce III (September 11, 1933 – July 23, 2002) was the leader of the white separatist National Alliance organization, and a principal ideologue of the white nationalist movement. ... This article refers to the United States-based organization. ...


The SPLC won a $37.8 million verdict for Macedonia Baptist Church,a 100-year-old black church in Manning, South Carolina, against the two Ku Klux Klan chapters and five Klansmen (Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and Invisible Empire, Inc.) in July 1998.[48] The money was awarded stemming from arson convictions in which the Klan burned down the historic black church in 1995.[49] Morris Dees told the press, "If we put the Christian Knights out of business, what's that worth? We don't look at what we can collect. It's what the jury thinks this egregious conduct is worth that matters, along with the message it sends."[50] According to the Washington Post the amount is the "largest-ever civil award for damages in a hate crime case."[50] Manning is a city in Clarendon County, South Carolina, United States. ... ...


In September 2000 the SPLC won a $6.3 million judgment against the Aryan Nations from an Idaho jury who awarded punitive and compensatory damages to a woman and her son who were attacked by Aryan Nations guards.[51] The lawsuit stemmed from the July 1998 attack when security guards at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho shot at Victoria Keenan and her son.[52] Bullets struck their car several times then the car crashed and Aryan member held the Keenans at gunpoint.[52] As a result of the judgement, Richard Butler turned over the 20-acre compound to the Keenans who then sold the property to a philanthropist who subsequently donated it to North Idaho College, which designated the land as a "peace park."[53] Aryan Nations flag Aryan Nations (AN) is an international white supremacist, Neo-Nazi organization that is affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan. ... Aryan Nations current leader August Kreis III, left, with Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler Richard Girnt Butler (February 23, 1918 in Bennett, Colorado - September 8, 2004 in Hayden, Idaho) was an American aerospace engineer for Lockheed turned neo-Fascist leader of Aryan Nations, a movement built around Christian Identity. ... North Idaho College is a community college located in Coeur dAlene, Idaho, right next to the lake. ...

Ten Commandments monument commissioned by Roy Moore.

In 2002 the SPLC and the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against Alabama Supreme Court justice Roy Moore for authorizing a two ton display of the Ten Commandments on public property.[54] Moore, late at night and without telling any other court justice, had installed a 5,280 pound (2400 kg) granite block, three feet wide by three feet deep by four feet tall, of the Ten Commandments.[55] After refusing to obey several court rulings Moore was eventually removed from the court, and the statue was removed as well. Image File history File links Moore_monument. ... Image File history File links Moore_monument. ... For other uses, see Ten Commandments (disambiguation). ... For the baseball player, see Roy Moore (baseball). ... The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American organization consisting of two separate entities. ... The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama. ... For the baseball player, see Roy Moore (baseball). ... For other uses, see Ten Commandments (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see granite (disambiguation). ...


On April 20, 2007 a civil jury in Linden, Texas awarded $9 million in damages to Billy Ray Johnson, a mentally disabled black man, who was beat and dumped along a desolate road by four white men in September 2003.[56] Four white males took Johnson to a party where has was knocked unconscious then dropped on his head, referred to as a nigger, and left in a ditch bleeding.[57] Due to the event, "Johnson, 46, who suffered serious, permanent brain injuries from the attack, will require care for the rest of his life."[58] At a criminal trial the four men received sentences of 30 to 60 days in county jail.[59] The jury hoped that the verdict would improve race relations in the community stemming from a United States Department of Education investigation and other controversial verdicts. During the trial one of the defendants, Cory Hicks, referred to Johnson as "it".[60] Linden is a city located in Cass County, Texas. ... // Nigger is a racial slur used to refer to dark-skinned people, especially those of African ancestry. ... The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building[1]) , ED headquarters in Washington, DC A construction project to repair and update the building facade at the Department of Education Headquarters building in 2002 resulted in the installation of structures at all of the entrances to protect employees and visitors from...


In July 2007 the SPLC filed suit on behalf of Jordan Gruver and his mother against the Imperial Klans of America (IKA) in Meade County, Kentucky where in July 2006, five Klansmen savagely beat Gruver, a 16-year-old boy of Panamanian descent, at a Kentucky county fair.[61] According to the lawsuit, five Klan members went to the Meade County Fairgrounds in Brandenburg, Kentucky, "to hand out business cards and flyers advertising a 'white-only' IKA function."[61] Then, unprovoked two members of the Klan started calling the 16-year-old boy of Panamanian descent a "spic".[61] Subsequently, the boy, (5-foot-3 and weighing 150 pounds) was beaten and kicked by the Klansmen (one of whom was 6-foot-5 and 300 pounds). As a result of the beating, the victim received "two cracked ribs, a broken left forearm, multiple cuts and bruises and jaw injuries requiring extensive dental repair."[61] In February 2007, Jarred Hensley and Andrew Watkins were sentenced to three years in prison for beating Gruver.[62] The Imperial Klans of America Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is one of several modern white supremacist organizations styled after the original Ku Klux Klan. ... Meade County is a county located in the state of Kentucky. ... Brandenburg is a city located in Meade County, Kentucky. ... Spic (also spelled spik, spick, or spig) is an offensive ethnic slur used in the United States and occasionally in the United Kingdom[1] for a person from Latin America or of Latino/Hispanic descent, sometimes including Spanish and Brazilian persons. ...


Intelligence Report

The SPLC's Intelligence Project monitors hate groups and extremists in the United States with their Intelligence Report.[63] The report is published quarterly since 1981 and provides information regarding organizational efforts and tactics of hate groups. In addition to the Report, the SPLC publishes HateWatch Weekly that follows racism and extremism.[64]


Hate group listings

Main article: List of purported hate groups

The SPLC says "All hate groups have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.... Listing here does not imply that a group advocates or engages in violence or other criminal activity."[65] The SPLC categorizes these groups as black separatist (such as the Nation of Islam), Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi, Christian Identity, racist skinhead, neo-Confederate, and other. Some organizations described by the SPLC as hate groups object to this characterization, particularly those in the other category. As of 2005, there were 161 organizations in the United States categorized as other.[66] Numerous groups have been alleged to be hate groups, which are organized groups or movements that advocate hate, hostility or violence. ... Black separatism is a separatist political movement that seeks a separate homeland for black people, particularly African-Americans. ... The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious and social/political organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930 with the self-proclaimed goal of resurrecting the spiritual, mental, social, economic condition of the black man and woman of America and belief that God will bring... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ... // For the general identity of an individual with certain core essential religious doctrines, see Christianity. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Neo-Confederate movement

The Southern Poverty Law Center is the principal group reporting on the neo-Confederate movement. A 2000 special report by the SPLC's Mark Potok in their magazine, Intelligence Report, describes a number of groups as neo-Confederate. The SPLC has also carried subsequent articles on the neo-Confederate movement. "Lincoln Reconstructed" published in 2003 in the Intelligence Report focuses on the resurgent demonization of Abraham Lincoln in the southern United States.[67] The article quotes the chaplain of the Sons of Confederate Veterans as giving an invocation which recalled "the last real Christian civilization on Earth."[67] In the SPLC article "Whitewashing the Confederacy", George Ewert claimed that Gods and Generals presented a false, pro-Confederate view of history.[68] David Horowitz's Front Page Magazine responded, as part of what is known as the David Horowitz Freedom Center controversy. The David Horowitz Freedom Center itself was identified as a neo-Confederate group by the SPLC.[69] Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation). ... Historic Southern United States. ... A chaplain in the 45th Infantry Division leads a Christmas Day service in Italy, 1943. ... Sons of Confederate Veterans logo Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is an organization of male descendants of soldiers who served the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. ... For other uses, see Gods and Generals (disambiguation). ... For other persons named David Horowitz, see David Horowitz (disambiguation). ... FrontPageMag. ... The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American non-profit legal organization, whose stated purpose is to combat racism and promote civil rights through research, education and litigation. ...


The Southern Legal Resource Center (SLRC) has been identified by the SPLC as a neo-Confederate organization, and it was criticised for misleading its supporters in order to get donations.[70] The SLRC was criticized because its founder, Kirk D. Lyons' pre-SLRC defended controversial far right figures such as Tom Metzger and members of Aryan Nations.[71] The Southern Legal Resource Center (SLRC) is a non-profit legal foundation which offers legal support to victims of discrimination or other averse actions related to Southern Heritage. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into far right. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Aryan Nations flag Aryan Nations (AN) is an international white supremacist, Neo-Nazi organization that is affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan. ...


Controversy and criticisms

The SPLC has attracted controversy surrounding its methods of identifying and monitoring "hate groups", allegedly exaggerating the level of threat from such groups. In the wake of harsh criticism, SPLC has received dozens of death/bomb threats.[72] The SPLC was described by Thomas Edsall of the Washington Post in 1998 as a "a controversial, liberal organization that tracks conservative militia and 'patriot' organizations" that has uncovered much information on extremist groups.[1] Groups, such as the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), claim the SPLC's criticism that the CCC is tied to "White Supremacists" is inaccurate.[1] Thomas Byrne Edsall (born 1941) is an American journalist and academic, best known for his 25 years at the Washington Post. ... ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) is an American paleoconservative political organization that supports a large variety of localized grassroots causes including white separatism, and which opposes racial integration,[1] multiculturalism and political correctness. ...


Fundraising criticism

From February 12 through 14, 1994, a series in the Montgomery Advertiser by Dan Morse alleged that the Southern Poverty Law Center practiced financial mismanagement, poor management practices and misleading fundraising practices. The newspaper summarized its investigation as producing evidence of "a complex portrait of a wealthy civil rights organization essentially controlled by one man: Morris Dees."[73] The paper took a random sampling of donors, and found out that the average donor did not know the Center was so well funded.[74] Yet the articles were not all negative, with the authors noting "Other Law Center lawsuits forced cotton mills to improve conditions for workers" and the Center "developed new strategies for defending suspects on death row."[75] In response to the criticism, Joe Levin told the paper: "The Advertiser's lack of interest in the center's programs and its obsessive interest in the center's financial affairs and Mr. Dees' personal life makes it obvious to me that the Advertiser simply wants to smear the center and Mr. Dees."[76] The SPLC investigative series was a finalist for a 1995 Pulitzer Prize.[77] A 1996 article reported Stephen Bright of the Southern Center for Human Rights stated that Dees "is a fraud who has milked a lot of very wonderful well-intentioned people. If it's got headlines, Morris is there."[18] Yet, more recently in 2007 the Montgomery Advertiser has praised the SPLC efforts for helping to teach tolerance in schools.[78] The Montgomery Advertiser is a daily newspaper located in Montgomery, Alabama. ... Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline for Biographies. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ...


In November 2000, Harper's Magazine published an article titled "The Church of Morris Dees" by Ken Silverstein, which was critical of the SPLC.[79] In it Silverstein wrote "Morris Dees doesn't need your financial support" because "the SPLC is already the wealthiest 'civil rights' group in America." Furthermore, Silverstein claimed "Back in 1978, when the Center had less than $10 million," but then it sought 50 million dollars and again "upped the bar to $100 million" to allow the Center "to cease the costly and often unreliable task of fund raising." However, in 2000 "the SPLC's treasury bulges with $120 million, and it spends twice as much on fund-raising — $5.76 million last year — as it does on legal services for victims of civil rights abuses." In fact, Silverstein cited the American Institute of Philanthropy who in 2000 gave "the center one of the worst ratings of any group it monitors, estimating that the SPLC could operate for 4.6 years without making another tax-exempt nickel from its investments or raising another tax-deductible cent from well-meaning 'people like you'." Harpers redirects here. ... Ken Silverstein is a freelance investigative writer based in Washington. ... The American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP) was created by Daniel Borochoff in 1993 to address the continuing need for thoughtful information regarding the financial efficiency, accountability, governance and fundraising practices of charities. ...


The charity evaluation organization Charity Navigator gives SPLC an overall rating of three out of four stars.[80] According to Charity Navigator: program expenses are 66.4%, administrative expenses are 16.9%, and fundraising is 16.6%.[81] The Center states that "During its last fiscal year, the Center spent approximately 65% of its total expenses on program services. The Center also placed a portion of its income into a special, board-designated endowment fund to support the Center's future work. At the end of the fiscal year, the endowment stood at $120.6 million."[82] Charity Navigator is an independent, non-profit organization that evaluates American charities. ...


David Horowitz Freedom Center

Chip Berlet, writing for the SPLC in 2003, identified David Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture (now called David Horowitz Freedom Center) as one of 17 "right-wing foundations and think tanks support[ing] efforts to make bigoted and discredited ideas respectable." Berlet accused Horowitz of blaming slavery on "'black Africans ... abetted by dark-skinned Arabs'" and of "attack[ing] minority 'demands for special treatment' as 'only necessary because some blacks can't seem to locate the ladder of opportunity within reach of others,' rejecting the idea that they could be the victims of lingering racism."[83] Responding with an open letter to Morris Dees, president of the SPLC, Horowitz stated that his reminder that the slaves transported to America were bought from African and Arab slavers was a response to demands that only whites pay blacks reparations, not to hold Africans and Arabs solely responsible for slavery, and that the statement that he had denied lingering racism was "a calculated and carefully constructed lie." The letter said that Berlet's work was "so tendentious, so filled with transparent misrepresentations and smears that if you continue to post the report you will create for your Southern Poverty Law Center a well-earned reputation as a hate group itself."[84] Berlet responded: "The Center for the Study of Popular Culture has produced a vast amount of text marked by nasty polemic and exceptional insensitivity around issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual identity. Writers for the CSPC tend to use language that exacerbates societal tensions rather than seeking some form of constructive critical discourse. They are mainstreaming bigotry—and this is precisely the topic of my article in Intelligence Report."[85] Subsequent critical pieces on Berlet and the SPLC have been featured on FrontPage Magazine.[86][87] Horowitz' site DiscovertheNetworks.Org also includes a page on Southern Poverty Law Center. John Foster Chip Berlet (born November 22, 1949) is an American photographer and researcher specializing in the study of right-wing movements in the United States, particularly the religious right, white supremacists, homophobic groups, and paramilitary organizations. ... For other persons named David Horowitz, see David Horowitz (disambiguation). ... The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborator, co-author, and friend, Peter Collier. ... Slave redirects here. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... For other uses, see Arab (disambiguation). ... Morris Seligman Dees, Jr. ... FrontPage Magazine is a conservative internet publication edited by David Horowitz Link [1] Categories: Computer stubs | Magazines stubs ...


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