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7 unusual facts about Southern Poverty Law Center


Hate group

The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated several Christian groups as hate groups, including the American Family Association, the Family Research Council, Abiding Truth Ministries, American Vision, the Chalcedon Foundation, the Dove World Outreach Center the Traditional Values Coalition, and now the Westboro Baptist Church.

Houston GLBT Community Center

Numerous Houston organizations have previously had office space at the Center, including H.A.T.C.H.; Houston chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (P-FLAG); Pride Committee of Houston; Q-Patrol; Greater Houston GLBT Chamber of Commerce; Houston GLBT Political Caucus; the Black Lesbian and Gay Coalition; the Texas Human Rights Foundation; Southern Poverty Law Center; and the Gay and Lesbian Switchboard.

Jared Taylor

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Taylor as "a courtly presenter of ideas that most would describe as crudely white supremacist – a kind of modern-day version of the refined but racist colonialist of old".

Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich, writing in the Intelligence Report (a publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center), state that Taylor is "the cultivated, cosmopolitan face of white supremacy" and "the guy who is providing the intellectual heft, in effect, to modern-day Klansmen".

Lou Dobbs Tonight

Critics of his broadcast, such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, allege Lou Dobbs Tonight regularly aired segments featuring, and had as on-air guests, people that the SPLC considers to be involved with white supremacist groups, without the show revealing involvement in such groups.

Melanie Killen

She has consulted for the U.S. Government in the area of peer conflict resolution as well as for Sesame Workshop and Teaching Tolerance.

SPLC

the Southern Poverty Law Center, an American nonprofit civil rights organization based in Montgomery, Alabama


Jocelyn Benson

Prior to attending law school, Benson also lived in Montgomery, Alabama, where she worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center as an investigative journalist, researching white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations.

Mark Potok

Mark Potok is a spokesman and director of publications and information for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Montgomery, Alabama, a nonprofit organization that arose from the anti-segregation movement to counter extremism and hate crimes.

Matthew F. Hale

Mark Potok, director of intelligence for the Southern Poverty Law Center, believes that Smith may have acted in retaliation after Hale's application to practice law was rejected.

Miles Law School

Among the founders were Bishop C. A. Kirkendoll of the C.M.E. Church, Dr. W. Clyde Williams, former president of Miles College, former Alabama Judge and state Senator J. Richmond Pearson, and Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center.


see also

History of fountains in the United States

One of the most unusual modern American fountains is the Civil Rights Memorial (1989) at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, designed by Maya Lin, the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C..

Potok

Mark Potok, Jewish spokesman of the Southern Poverty Law Center