Keeping the dream alive : the cases and causes of the Southern Poverty Law Center

Gunter, Booth. (Author). Southern Poverty Law Center (Added Author).

Summary: In text and photographs, describes the history of the crusading lawsuits and causes of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization founded in Montgomery, Alabama, by lawyers Morris Dees and Joe Levin. Includes accounts of the organization's founding in the wake of the civil rights movement; its many legal battles against the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups; its lawsuits on behalf of minorities, prisoners, children, women, the disabled, immigrants and other vulnerable members of society; its anti-bias education efforts; and its construction and operation of the Civil Rights Memorial.

Item details

ISBN: 9780990699019
ISBN: 0990699013
Physical Description: print
247 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 x 26 cm
Publisher: Montgomery, Ala. : Southern Poverty Law Center, ©2014.
Copyright: ©2014

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Beginnings -- Burying Jim Crow -- Fighting hate groups -- Fighting for society's most vulnerable -- "Until justice rolls down like waters..." -- Remembering the martyrs.

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