Keeping the dream alive
Subtitle: the cases and causes of the Southern Poverty Law Center
By: by Booth Gunter
Contributors: Southern Poverty Law Center
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780990699019; 9780990699002
Subjects: Southern Poverty Law Center; Civil rights; Social justice; Civil rights movements; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: Burying Jim Crow; title: Fighting hate groups; title: Fighting for society's most vulnerable; title: "Until justice rolls down like waters..."; title: Remembering the martyrs.