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The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded in 1971 as a small civil rights law firm. Today, SPLC is internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists and its tracking of hate groups. Located in Montgomery, Alabama the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement the Southern Poverty Law Center was founded by Morris Dees and Joe Levin, two local lawyers who shared a commitment to racial equality. Its first president was civil rights activist Julian Bond. Throughout its history, SPLC has worked to make the nation's Constitutional ideals a reality. The SPLC legal department fights all forms of discrimination and works to protect society's most vulnerable members, handling innovative cases that few lawyers are willing to take. Over three decades, it has achieved significant legal victories, including landmark Supreme Court decisions and crushing jury verdicts against hate groups. In 1981, the Southern Poverty Law Center began investigating hate activity in response to a resurgence of groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Today the SPLC Intelligence Project monitors hate groups and tracks extremist activity throughout the U.S. It provides comprehensive updates to law enforcement, the media and the public through its quarterly magazine, Intelligence Report. Staff members regularly conduct training sessions for police, schools, and civil rights and community groups, and they often serve as experts at hearings and conferences...

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Right-wing militias on the rise in US: report

- 2009-08-12

WASHINGTON AFP â?? Incensed by the election of the first black US president, right-wing militia groups in the United States are rising again after a decade of decline, according to new research on extremist groups released on Wednesday.Ideologically driven by racism and a virulent anti-government, anti-taxation and anti-immigrant agenda, the...

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SPLC Exploits Murder of 9-Year-Old to Advance Attacks on Federation for American Immigration Reform

- 2009-06-16

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Ira Mehlman, +1-206-420-7733, or Bob Dane, +1-202-328- 7004, both of FAIR Fabricates Story to Advance Political Agenda WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC has launched its most irresponsible attack to date against the Federation for American Immigration Reform FAIR. The...

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Left-wing strategy

- 2009-05-13

Boy, was I excited when I opened my newspaper Tuesday morning to the headline: "Election has spurred hate." My first thought was "Hot dog! The Deseret News is about to expose these crazy left-wingers who are just beside themselves with eagerness to start their 'show trials' of...

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Group hate

- 2009-04-20

Hard times have been known to bring out the best in people. Unfortunately, they also can bring out the worst in people. The worst was what the Southern Poverty Law Center found last year as it was putting together its annual report on hate groups....

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Immigration group's foe sees 'McCarthyite' campaign

- 2009-04-16

The leading Jewish pro-immigration group is attempting to discredit its most outspoken opponent in the Jewish community by attempting to link his employer to a white nationalist. HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, recently issued a media release hailing a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center that seeks...

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Do you fit the terrorist profile?

- 2009-04-13

Are you on some government list as a possible "domestic terrorist" suspect because you have exercised your First Amendment right to express opposition to a government program or a proposed piece of legislation? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Have you, like millions of your fellow Americans, expressed outrage over...

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Fighting Hate Speech: Hispanic Organizations and Responsible Media Take Aim

- 2008-11-03

Radio, television and the Internet blast us constantly with a barrage of images and voices. What their messages are telling us and how we are to gauge their quality and monitor their effect have become subjects of increasing interest and debate. At what point does media rhetoric become offensive? Who/what...

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Supect to go on trial for 1989 Phila. murder

- 2008-05-19

Jury selection is expected to begin today in the 19- year-old-murder of a North Philadelphia black man in what has been labeled a "racial killing."Charged with murder, ethnic intimidation and related offenses for the April 16, 1989 shooting death of Aaron Wood is Thomas Gibison, then 17.At a preliminary hearing...

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Letters: What the minister left out

- 2008-04-17

IN HIS RECENT op-ed, Minister Rodney Muhammad feigns bewilderment over the charge, by the Southern Poverty Law Center and others, that the Nation of Islam is a hate group.In the spirit of Hamas and other such organizations who emphasize their "social welfare component" while hoping the public will ignore the...

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Intelligence Report: Hate Group Numbers Up by 48% Since 2000

- 2008-03-10

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Mark Potok or Heidi Beirich, both of the Southern Poverty Law Center, +1-334-956-8200 MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The number of hate groups operating in America has swelled by 48 percent since 2000, a staggering increase mainly attributable to the anti- immigrant fervor sweeping...

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