Morris Dees is an attorney and co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a “hate group” litigation group formed in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama. Dees served as chief trial counsel for the SPLC until March 2019, when he was fired from his position. [1]
Person
Morris Dees
| Occupation: | Attorney Co-Founder and Former Chief Trial Counsel, Southern Poverty Law Center |
References
- Audra D.S. Burch, Alan Binder, John Eligon. “Roiled by Staff Uproar, Civil Rights Group Looks at Intolerance Within.” New York Times. March 25, 2019. Accessed April 10, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/us/morris-dees-leaves-splc.html ↩