With Its Former President Gone, Will the Southern Poverty Law Center Return to Its Roots as Genuine Civil Rights Watchdog? - CovertAction Magazine

With Its Former President Gone, Will the Southern Poverty Law Center Return to Its Roots as Genuine Civil Rights Watchdog? - CovertAction Magazine

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) brands itself as a civil rights watchdog. Founded by Morris Dees, Joseph Levin and Julian Bond in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama, it gained a favorable reputation in liberal circles in the 1980s for filing civil lawsuits for monetary damages on behalf of the victims of violence from the Ku […] The post With Its Former President Gone, Will the Southern Poverty Law Center Return to Its Roots as Genuine Civil Rig…