Southern Poverty Law Center

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a U.S. nonprofit legal advocacy organization that litigates against discrimination and tracks hate groups and extremist movements.

Hatewatch: The Southern Poverty Law Center’s reporting project on the radical right and hate groups. It publishes the organization’s research on extremist movements.
Morris Dees: An American lawyer and direct-mail entrepreneur who co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center. He helped establish the organization and build its fundraising model.
United States v. United Klans of America: A federal civil-rights case that resulted in the United Klans of America surrendering its Alabama headquarters. The center’s litigation helped secure the transfer of the property after a lynching.
Anti-Defamation League: A U.S. advocacy organization founded to combat antisemitism and other forms of discrimination. It also monitors extremism, offering a comparison with the center’s research and advocacy.
Intelligence Project: The Southern Poverty Law Center program that monitors hate groups and extremist activity. It produces the group listings and analysis central to the center’s monitoring work.
Joseph J. Levin Jr.: An American civil-rights lawyer who co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center with Morris Dees. His legal work helped form the center’s original mission.
Morris Dees v. Tom Metzger: A civil suit that held White Aryan Resistance leader Tom Metzger and his organization liable for a killing by associates. The case demonstrates the center’s use of civil liability against organized racist violence.
Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism: A research center at California State University, San Bernardino, that studies hate crimes and extremism. Its academic research provides a different institutional approach to tracking hate.
Teaching Tolerance: The Southern Poverty Law Center’s education initiative, now called Learning for Justice, offering resources on bias and inclusion. It extends the center’s work into schools and public education.
Montgomery, Alabama: The capital of Alabama, a city central to the U.S. civil rights movement. The center was founded there in 1971 and remains headquartered there.

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