Civil Rights Attorney Morris Dees to Speak
Jan. 19
Civil
rights attorney Morris Dees will speak on
social justice and education at 8 p.m.,
Wednesday, Jan. 19 in Templeton-Blackburn
Memorial Auditorium on the Athens campus
of Ohio University. As co-founder and
chief trial counsel for the Southern
Poverty Law Center, Dees has won many
judgments against extremist organizations
by persuading juries to hold racist
leaders accountable for their crimes.
In
1971, Dees founded the Southern Poverty
Law Center, offering free legal services
to the poor. Dees has won millions of
dollars in cases involving free speech,
women's rights, the Ku Klux Klan and the
White Aryan Resistance. In 1998, he won a
$37.8 million jury verdict against the
Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and
its leaders for burning the Macedonia
Baptist Church in Manning, South Carolina.
The
speech is free and open to the public.
For
more information, please read the
full
text of this
release.
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