Miami University lecture series
Subtitle: Morris Dees, Hall Auditorium 2/1/2000
Contributors: Dees, Morris
Publisher: s.n.
Place of publication: [S.l
Format: Videorecording
Subjects: Toleration
Other titles: Morris Dees
Description: Attorney and civil rights activist Morris Dees delivered a lecture called "Teaching Tolerance" on Feb. 1. As founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Dees launched a historic lawsuit against the Ku Klux Klan for the lynching of an African-American man in Mobile, Ala. in 1981. The Klan was forced to pay an unprecedented $7 million verdict for inciting violence. Similar lawsuits followed, earning Dees honors from the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice and the National Education Association. Currently, Dees is devoting his time to educating people about America's radical militia movement, a topic he probed in his 1996 book "Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat."
Notes: VHS format