Southern Poverty Law Center

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Title Southern Poverty Law Center
Date published 2021-12-06
Curation date 2021-12-06
Curator Dr. Victoria A. Stuart, Ph.D.
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Summary The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3)   nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. Based in Montgomery,   Alabama, it is known for its legal cases against white supremacist groups, its classification of hate groups and other extremist organizations, and for promoting tolerance education programs.
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  • What we do. We employ a three-pronged strategy to battle racial and social injustice.

    • Fighting hate: SPLC monitors hate groups and other extremists throughout the U.S. and exposes their activities to law enforcement agencies, the media and the public.

    • Learning for justice: we know we don't achieve equality and justice through the courts and investigative reporting alone. The future of our great country lies in the hands of today's young people.

    • Seeking justice: we use the courts and other forms of advocacy to win systemic reforms on behalf of victims of bigotry and discrimination.

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Corporate Information
 
Name Southern Poverty Law Center
Abbreviation SPLC
Founded 1971-08
Founders
Type
  • 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
  • Civil rights advocacy organization
  • Public-interest law firm
Focus
Status Active
Focus
  • Civil rights advocacy organization
  • Public-interest law firm
EIN (Tax ID) 63-0598743
Location United States
Headquarters Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.A.
Areas served United States
CEO Margaret Huang (2020-02)
President Margaret Huang (2020-02)
Chair Bryan Keith Fair
Former president J. Richard Cohen
Controversies Accusations: workplace racial, sexual harassment
Products
  • Educational materials
  • Legal representation
Revenue 2018 FY: $136.3 million
Endowment 2018 FY: $471.0 million
Employees 2011: 254
Website SPLCenter.org/
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    Background

    The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3)   nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. Based in Montgomery,   Alabama, it is known for its legal cases against white supremacist groups, its classification of hate groups and other extremist organizations, and for promoting tolerance education programs. The SPLC was founded by Morris Seligman Dees Jr.,   Joseph J. Levin Jr.  [local copy], and Horace Julian Bond in 1971 as a civil rights law firm in Montgomery, Alabama. Julian Bond served as president of the board between 1971 and 1979.

    In 1980, the Southern Poverty Law Center began a litigation strategy of filing civil suits for monetary damages on behalf of the victims of violence from the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC also became involved in other civil rights causes, including cases to challenge what it sees as institutional racial segregation and discrimination, inhumane and unconstitutional conditions in prisons and detention centers, discrimination based on sexual orientation, mistreatment of illegal immigrants, and the unconstitutional   mixing of church and state. The SPLC has provided information about hate groups to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other law enforcement agencies.

    Since the 2000s, the Southern Poverty Law Center's classification and listings of hate groups (organizations it has assessed either "attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics") and extremists have often been described as authoritative and are widely accepted and cited in academic and media coverage of such groups and related issues. The SPLC's listings have also been the subject of criticism from those who argue that some of the SPLC's listings are overbroad, politically motivated, or unwarranted. There have also been accusations of misuse or unnecessarily extravagant use of funds by the SPLC, leading some employees to call the headquarters "Poverty Palace".

    In 2019, founder Morris Dees was fired, which was followed by President Richard Cohen's resignation. An outside consultant, Tina Tchen, was brought in to review workplace practices, particularly relating to accusations of racial harassment and sexual harassment. Margaret Huang  [local copy], who was formerly the Chief Executive at Amnesty International USA, was named as president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center in early February 2020.

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  • SPLC Hatewatch (blog)

  • Hatewatch is a blog that monitors and exposes the activities of the American radical right.

  • The Hatewatch blog - created circa 2007 - publishes the work of SPLC teams, including investigative journalists who "monitor and expose" activities of the "American radical right". Initially, its precursor - the "Klanwatch project" - which was established in 1981, focused on monitoring Ku Klux Klan (KKK) activities. The Hatewatch blog, along with the "Teaching Tolerance" program and the Intelligence Report, highlights SPLC's work.

    An in-depth 2018-06-14 Hatewatch report  [local copy] examined the roots and evolution of Black-on-white crime rhetoric, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 2010s. According to the report, "misrepresented crime statistics" on "Black-on-white crime" have become a "main propaganda point of America's hate movement". The report described how Dylann Roof, the perpetrator of the 2015-06-17, Charleston church shooting had written in his manifesto about his 2012 Google search for "Black-on-white crime", which led him to be convinced that Black men were a "physical threat to white people." One of the first sources was the Council of Conservative Citizens. The report shows that on 2015-11-22, then-Presidential Candidate Donald Trump retweeted a chart that had "originated from a neo-Nazi account" which displayed "bogus crime statistics". The SPLC report cited a 2005-11-23, The Washington Post article that fact checked the figures in the graph. The tweet said that "81 percent of whites are killed by Black people", while the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says that only 15 percent of white murder victims are killed by a Black perpetrator; the large majority of white murder victims are killed by white perpetrators.


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    Additional Reading

  • [SPLCenter.org, 2021-12-20] SPLC's Top Cases of 2021.  The Southern Poverty Law Center's 50-year mission to battle racial and social injustice carries on in the courts. Here's a roundup of recent key cases in our focus areas: voting rights, immigrant justice, criminal justice, economic rights, children's rights, and LGBTQ rights. ...

  • [SPLCenter.org, 2021-12-19] Revealed: Startup Creates Streaming Platform for Extremists on Big-Tech Infrastructure.

  • [SPLCenter.org, 2021-12-06] Vote Your Voice Expands: SPLC pledges $100 million to support voter engagement and pro-democracy groups in Deep South through 2033.

  • [Truthout.org, 2020-07-16] Southern Poverty Law Center Adds Stephen Miller to Its List of Extremists.


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