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Southern Poverty Law Center

March 20, 2023

"SPLC" redirects here. For other uses, see SPLC (disambiguation).

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.[3] Based in Montgomery, Alabama, it is known for its legal cases against white supremacist groups, for its classification of hate groups and other extremist organizations, and for promoting tolerance education programs.[4][5]: 1500  The SPLC was founded by Morris Dees, Joseph J. Levin Jr., and Julian Bond in 1971 as a civil rights law firm in Montgomery.[6] Bond served as president of the board between 1971 and 1979.[7]

Southern Poverty Law Center
FoundedAugust 1971; 51 years ago (August 1971)
Founders
Type
  • Public-interest law firm
  • Civil rights advocacy organization
63-0598743 (EIN)
Focus
Location
Coordinates32°22′36″N 86°18′12″W / 32.37667°N 86.30333°W / 32.37667; -86.30333Coordinates: 32°22′36″N 86°18′12″W / 32.37667°N 86.30333°W / 32.37667; -86.30333
Area served
United States
Product
  • Legal representation
  • Educational materials
Key people
Margaret Huang (President and CEO)
Bryan Fair (Board Chairman)
Revenue
$136.3 million (2018 FY)[1]
Endowment$471.0 million (2018 FY)[1]
Employees
254 in 2011[2]
WebsiteSPLCenter.org

In 1980, the SPLC began a litigation strategy of filing civil suits for monetary damages on behalf of the victims of violence from the Ku Klux Klan.[8] 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.[9][10]

Since the 2000s, the SPLC'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")[11] and extremists[12] have often been described as authoritative and are widely accepted and cited in academic and media coverage of such groups and related issues.[13][14][15] 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.[16][17][18][19] There have also been accusations of misuse or unnecessarily extravagant use of funds by the organization, leading some employees to call the headquarters "Poverty Palace".[20]

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 and sexual harassment.[21] Margaret Huang, who was formerly the Chief Executive at Amnesty International USA, was named as president and CEO of the SPLC in early February 2020.[22]

History

 
The SPLC headquarters in Montgomery, Alabama

The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded by civil rights lawyers Morris Dees and Joseph J. Levin Jr. in August 1971[23] as a law firm originally focused on issues such as fighting poverty, racial discrimination and the death penalty in the United States. Dees asked civil rights leader Julian Bond to serve as president, a largely honorary position; he resigned in 1979 but remained on the board of directors until his death in 2015.

In 1979, Dees and the SPLC began filing civil lawsuits against Ku Klux Klan chapters and similar organizations for monetary damages on behalf of their victims. The favorable verdicts from these suits served to bankrupt the KKK and other targeted organizations.[24] According to a 1996 article in the New York Times, Dees and the SPLC "have been credited with devising innovative legal ways to cripple hate groups, including seizing their assets."[25] Some civil libertarians said that SPLC's tactics chill free speech and set legal precedents that could be applied against activist groups which are not hate groups.[24]

In 1981, the Center began its Klanwatch project to monitor the activities of the KKK. That project, now called Hatewatch, was later expanded to include seven other types of hate organizations.[26]

In 1986, the entire legal staff of the SPLC, excluding Dees, resigned as the organization shifted from traditional civil rights work toward fighting right-wing extremism.[24]

In 1989, the Center unveiled its Civil Rights Memorial, which was designed by Maya Lin.[27]

In 1995, the Montgomery Advertiser won a Pulitzer Prize recognition for work that probed management self-interest, questionable practices, and employee racial discrimination allegations in the SPLC.[28][20]

The Center's "Teaching Tolerance" project was initiated in 1991.[29]

In 2008, the SPLC and Dees were featured on National Geographic's Inside American Terror explaining their litigation strategy against the Ku Klux Klan.[30]

In 2011, the SPLC was "involved in high-profile state fights",[31] including the battle over the Georgia House Bill 87 (HB 87). The SPLC joined with the ACLU, the Asian Law Caucus, and the National Immigration Law Center in June 2011, to file a lawsuit challenging HB 87.[32] which resulted in a permanent injunction in 2013 blocking multiple provisions of the law.[33]

In 2013 "Teaching Tolerance" was cited as "of the most widely read periodicals dedicated to diversity and social justice in education".[34]

In 2016, the SPLC's "ranks swelled" and its "endowment surged" after President Donald Trump was elected, resulting in the hiring of 200 new employees.[35]

In March 2019 founder Morris Dees was fired, and in April Karen Baynes-Dunning was named as interim president and CEO.[36] After a "tumultuous year", in mid-December 2019, staff at the SPLC voted to unionize, with 142 in favor and 45 against.[31] The SPLC had "long been dogged by accusations of internal discrimination against minority employees, particularly in the area of promotions."[22]

A new president and CEO, Margaret Huang, was named in early February 2020.[22]

More recently, the SPLC and the ACLU have been involved in "battles over the treatment of inmates in the state's prisons",[31] including an emergency request in April 2020 for the "release of tens of thousands of people in ICE custody" if ICE cannot provide protection for vulnerable inmates during the COVID-19 pandemic. The federal court injunction was filed as part of an existing class-action lawsuit regarding conditions in ICE facilities.[37] In 2018, The SPLC filed suits related to the conditions of incarceration for adults and juveniles.[38]

Leadership upheaval amid harassment allegations

In the spring of 2019, an assistant legal director resigned "over racial and gender equity concerns at the organization," according to the Montgomery Advertiser.[31]

In March 2019, the SPLC fired founder Morris Dees for undisclosed reasons and removed his bio from its website. In a statement regarding the firing, the SPLC announced it would be bringing in an "outside organization to conduct a comprehensive assessment of our internal climate and workplace practices."[39][40][41]

Following the dismissal, a letter signed by two dozen SPLC employees was sent to management, expressing concern that "allegations of mistreatment, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and racism threaten the moral authority of this organization and our integrity along with it."[42] One former employee wrote that the "unchecked power of lavishly compensated white men at the top" of the SPLC contributed to a culture which made black and female employees the targets of harassment.[20]

A week later, President Richard Cohen and legal director Rhonda Brownstein announced their resignations amid the internal upheaval. The associate legal director quit, alleging concerns regarding workplace culture.[43] Cohen said, "Whatever problems exist at the SPLC happened on my watch, so I take responsibility for them."[44][45]

Administration

In early February 2020, Margaret Huang, who was formerly the Chief Executive at Amnesty International USA, was named as president and CEO of the SPLC.[22] Huang replaced Karen Baynes-Dunning, a former juvenile court judge, who had served as interim president and CEO since April 2019, after founder Morris Dees was fired in March 2019.[36] The SPLC had appointed Tina Tchen, a former chief of staff for former first lady Michelle Obama, to review and investigate any issues with the organization's workplace environment related to Dees' firing.[20]

Fundraising and finances

The SPLC's activities, including litigation, are supported by fundraising efforts, and it does not accept any fees or share in legal judgments awarded to clients it represents in court. Starting in 1974, the SPLC set aside money for its endowment stating that it was "convinced that the day [would] come when non-profit groups [would] no longer be able to rely on support through mail because of posting and printing costs".[46]

The Los Angeles Times reported that by 2017, the SPLC's financial resources "nearly totaled half a billion dollars in assets".[47] For 2018, its endowment was approximately $471 million per its annual report and SPLC spent 49% of its revenue on programs.[1] According to the Montgomery Advertiser, the SPLC had received "significant financial support" with revenues almost "$122 million and total assets of $492.3 million", as of September 30, 2018.[31] For the fiscal year ending October 31, 2021, SPLC reported revenue of $133 million and total assets of $801 million, including $770 million in investments.[48]

Prior to his departure in 2019, Dee's "role at the Center was focused on 'donor relations' and "expanding the Center's financial resources".[47]

Charity ratings

In September 2019, based on 2018 figures, Charity Navigator rated the SPLC four out of four stars.[49] The Center received an overall score of 90.96 (out of 100) up from its 2016 rating of 85.5, 87.58 on financial health matters up from 79.7 in 2016, and 97 on accountability and transparency, the same rating as in 2016.[49][50] Charity Navigator included in their report that the SPLC had 1,165,240 followers on Facebook and 6 legal practice groups and were monitoring 1,020 hate groups.[49]

SPLC also earned the GuideStar Platinum Seal of Transparency, which is given to organizations that voluntarily share the "measures of progress and results they use to pursue their mission."[49]

In March 2019, CharityWatch downgraded the SPLC from B to F because the SPLC has "6.6 years worth of available assets in reserve." The SPLC spent only 64 percent of its funds on its programs. It cost $15 to raise $100.[51] According to CharityWatch, the SPLC's total expenses, as of March 2019, amounted to $74,000,000 and contributions totaled $111,000,000.[51]

Criminal attacks and plots against the SPLC

In July 1983, the SPLC headquarters was firebombed, destroying the building and records.[52] In February 1985, Klansmen Joe M. Garner and Roy T. Downs Jr., along with Klan sympathizer Charles Bailey, pleaded guilty to conspiring to intimidate, oppress and threaten members of black organizations represented by SPLC.[53] The SPLC built a new headquarters building from 1999 to 2001.[54]

In 1984, Morris Dees became an assassination target of The Order, a revolutionary white supremacist group.[55] By 2007, according to Dees, more than 30 people had been jailed in connection with plots to kill him or to blow up SPLC offices.[56]

In 1995, four men were indicted for planning to blow up the SPLC headquarters.[57] In May 1998, three white supremacists were arrested for allegedly planning a nationwide campaign of assassinations and bombings targeting Morris Dees and his Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama as well as the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, the Anti-Defamation League in New York, an undisclosed federal judge in Illinois and a black radio show host in Missouri.[58]

Notable SPLC civil cases on behalf of clients

The Southern Poverty Law Center has initiated a number of civil cases seeking injunctive relief and monetary awards on behalf of its clients. The SPLC has said it does not accept any portion of monetary judgments.[59][verification needed][60][failed verification]

Sims v. Amos (1974)

An early SPLC case was Sims v. Amos (consolidated with Nixon v. Brewer) in which the U.S. District Court for the Middle of Alabama ordered the state legislature to reapportion its election system. The result of the decision, which the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed, was that fifteen black legislators were elected in 1974.[61]

Brown v. Invisible Empire, KKK (1980)

In 1979, the Klan began a summer of attacks against civil rights groups, beginning in Alabama. In Decatur, Alabama, Klan members clashed with a group of civil rights marchers. There were a hundred Klan members carrying "bats, ax handles and guns". A black woman, Bernice Brown, was shot and other marchers were violently attacked. In Brown v. Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, filed in 1980 in the USDC Northern District of Alabama, the SPLC sued the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan on behalf of plaintiffs, Brown and other black marchers.[62] The civil suit which was settled in 1990, "required Klansmen to pay damages, perform community service, and refrain from white supremacist activity."[62] Chalmers wrote in Backfire, that the Klan had been in serious decline since the end of the 1970s. He described the "Klan summer of 1979",[63] as a "catastrophe" for the Klan, as the SPLC's newly established Klanwatch, which became a "powerful weapon" that "tracked and litigated" the Klan.[8]: 112  According to Chalmers, "[b]eginning with the Decatur street confrontation, the SPLC's Klanwatch began suing various Klans in federal court for civil rights violations", and as a result, the Klan lost credibility and its resources were depleted.[8]: 112  [Notes 1] As a result of the SPLC, the FBI reopen their case against the Klan, and "nine Klansmen were eventually convicted of criminal charges" related to the Decatur confrontation of 1979.[62]

Vietnamese fishermen (1981)

In 1981, the SPLC took Ku Klux Klan leader Louis Beam's Klan-associated militia, the Texas Emergency Reserve (TER),[64] to court to stop racial harassment and intimidation of Vietnamese shrimpers in and around Galveston Bay.[65] The Klan's actions against approximately 100 Vietnamese shrimpers in the area included a cross burning,[66] sniper fire aimed at them, and arsonists burning their boats.[67]

In May 1981, U.S. District Court judge Gabrielle McDonald[68] issued a preliminary injunction against the Klan, requiring them to cease intimidating, threatening, or harassing the Vietnamese.[69] McDonald eventually found the TER and Beam liable for tortious interference, violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and of various civil rights statutes and thus permanently enjoined them against violence, threatening behavior, and other harassment of the Vietnamese shrimpers.[68] The SPLC also uncovered an obscure Texas law "that forbade private armies in that state".[70] McDonald found that Beam's organization violated it and hence ordered the TER to close its military training camp.[70]

Person v. Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1982)

In 1982, armed members of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan terrorized Bobby Person, a black prison guard, and members of his family. They harassed and threatened others, including a white woman who had befriended blacks. In 1984, Person became the lead plaintiff in Person v. Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a lawsuit brought by the SPLC in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The harassment and threats continued during litigation and the court issued an order prohibiting any person from interfering with others inside the courthouse.[71] In January 1985, the court issued a consent order that prohibited the group's "Grand Dragon", Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., and his followers from operating a paramilitary organization, holding parades in black neighborhoods, and from harassing, threatening or harming any black person or white persons who associated with black persons. Subsequently, the court dismissed the plaintiffs' claim for damages.[71]

Within a year, the court found Miller and his followers, now calling themselves the White Patriot Party, in criminal contempt for violating the consent order. Miller was sentenced to six months in prison followed by a three-year probationary period, during which he was banned from associating with members of any racist group such as the White Patriot Party. Miller refused to obey the terms of his probation. He made underground "declarations of war" against Jews and the federal government before being arrested again. Found guilty of weapons violations, he went to federal prison for three years.[72]: 4 [73]

United Klans of America

In 1987, SPLC won a case against the United Klans of America for the lynching of Michael Donald, a black teenager in Mobile, Alabama.[74] The SPLC used an unprecedented legal strategy of holding an organization responsible for the crimes of individual members to help produce a $7 million judgment for the victim's mother.[74] The verdict forced United Klans of America into bankruptcy. Its national headquarters was sold for approximately $52,000 to help satisfy the judgment.[75] In 1987, five members of a Klan offshoot, the White Patriot Party, were indicted for stealing military weaponry and plotting to kill Dees.[76] The SPLC has since successfully used this precedent to force numerous Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups into bankruptcy.[77]

 
The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery

White Aryan Resistance

On November 13, 1988, in Portland, Oregon, three white supremacist members of East Side White Pride and White Aryan Resistance (WAR) fatally assaulted Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian man who came to the United States to attend college.[78] In October 1990, the SPLC won a civil case on behalf of Seraw's family against WAR's operator Tom Metzger and his son, John, for a total of $12.5 million.[79][80] The Metzgers declared bankruptcy, and WAR went out of business. The cost of work for the trial was absorbed by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as well as the SPLC.[81] As of August 2007, Metzger still makes payments to Seraw's family.[82][needs update]

Church of the Creator

In May 1991, Harold Mansfield, a black U.S. Navy war veteran, was murdered by George Loeb, a member of the neo-Nazi "Church of the Creator" (now called the Creativity Movement).[83] SPLC represented the victim's family in a civil case and won a judgment of $1 million from the church in March 1994.[84] The church transferred ownership to William Pierce, head of the National Alliance, to avoid paying money to Mansfield's heirs.[85] The SPLC filed suit against Pierce for his role in the fraudulent scheme and won an $85,000 judgment against him in 1995.[86][87] The amount was upheld on appeal and the money was collected prior to Pierce's death in 2002.[87]

Christian Knights of the KKK

The SPLC won a $37.8 million verdict on behalf of Macedonia Baptist Church, a 100-year-old black church in Manning, South Carolina, against two Ku Klux Klan chapters and five Klansmen (Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and Invisible Empire, Inc.) in July 1998.[88] The money was awarded stemming from arson convictions; these Klan units burned down the historic black church in 1995.[89] Morris Dees told the press, "If we put the Christian Knights out of business, what's that worth? We don't look at what we can collect. It's what the jury thinks this egregious conduct is worth that matters, along with the message it sends." According to The Washington Post the amount is the "largest-ever civil award for damages in a hate crime case."[90]

Aryan Nations

In September 2000, the SPLC won a $6.3 million judgment against the Aryan Nations via an Idaho jury who awarded punitive and compensatory damages to a woman and her son who were attacked by Aryan Nations guards.[6] The lawsuit stemmed from the July 1998 attack when security guards at the Aryan Nations compound near Hayden Lake in northern Idaho, shot at Victoria Keenan and her son.[91] Bullets struck their car several times, causing the car to crash. An Aryan Nations member held the Keenans at gunpoint.[91] As a result of the judgment, Richard Butler turned over the 20-acre (81,000 m2) compound to the Keenans, who sold the property to a philanthropist. He donated the land to North Idaho College, which designated the area as a "peace park".[92]

Ten Commandments monument

See also: Roy Moore § Ten Commandments monument controversy

In 2002, the SPLC and the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit (Glassroth v. Moore) against Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore for placing a display of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building. Moore, who had final authority over what decorations were to be placed in the Alabama State Judicial Building's Rotunda, had installed a 5,280 pound (2,400 kg) granite block, three feet wide by three feet deep by four feet tall, of the Ten Commandments late at night without the knowledge of any other court justice. After defying several court rulings, Moore was eventually removed from the court and the Supreme Court justices had the monument removed from the building.[93]

Leiva v. Ranch Rescue

In 2003, the SPLC, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and local attorneys filed a civil suit, Leiva v. Ranch Rescue, in Jim Hogg County, Texas, against Ranch Rescue, a vigilante paramilitary group and several of its associates, seeking damages for assault and illegal detention of two illegal immigrants caught near the U.S.-Mexico border. In April 2005, SPLC obtained judgments totaling $1 million against Casey James Nethercott, who was then Ranch Rescue's leader and the owner of an Arizona ranch, Camp Thunderbird, Joe Sutton, who owned the Hebbronville ranch on which two illegal immigrants has been caught trespassing on March 18, 2003, and Jack Foote, the founder of Ranch Rescue.[94] Sutton, who had recruited Ranch Rescue to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border region near his Hebbronville ranch,[72]: 4  settled with an $100,000 out-of-court settlement.[94] According to the New York Times, since neither Nethercott or Foote defended themselves, the "judge issued default judgments of $850,000 against Mr. Nethercott and $500,000 against Mr. Foote.[94] Neither men had "substantial assets" so Nethercott's 70-acre (280,000 m2) ranch—Camp Thunderbird—which had also served as Ranch Rescue's headquarters—was seized to pay the judgment and surrendered to the two illegal immigrants from El Salvador, Edwin Alfredo Mancía Gonzáles and Fátima del Socorro Leiva Medina.[94] SPLC staff worked also with Texas prosecutors to obtain a conviction against Nethercott for possession of a gun, which was illegal for a felon. Nethercott had served time in California for assault previously. As a result, he was sentenced to serve a five-year sentence in a Texas prison.[72]: 4 [95]

Billy Ray Johnson

The SPLC brought a civil suit on behalf of Billy Ray Johnson, a black, mentally disabled man, who was severely beaten by four white males in Texas and left bleeding in a ditch, suffering permanent injuries. In 2007, Johnson was awarded $9 million in damages by a Linden, Texas jury.[96][97] At a criminal trial, the four men were convicted of assault and received sentences of 30 to 60 days in county jail.[98][99]

Imperial Klans of America

In November 2008, the SPLC's case against the Imperial Klans of America (IKA), the nation's second-largest Klan organization, went to trial in Meade County, Kentucky.[100] The SPLC had filed suit for damages in July 2007 on behalf of Jordan Gruver and his mother against the IKA in Kentucky. In July 2006, five Klan members went to the Meade County Fairgrounds in Brandenburg, Kentucky, "to hand out business cards and flyers advertising a 'white-only' IKA function". Two members of the Klan started calling Gruver, a 16-year-old boy of Panamanian descent, a "spic".[101] Subsequently, the boy, (5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m) and weighing 150 pounds (68 kg)) was beaten and kicked by the Klansmen (one of whom was 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) and 300 pounds (140 kg)). As a result, the victim received "two cracked ribs, a broken left forearm, multiple cuts and bruises and jaw injuries requiring extensive dental repair."[101]

In a related criminal case in February 2007, Jarred Hensley and Andrew Watkins were sentenced to three years in prison for beating Gruver.[100] On November 14, 2008, an all-white jury of seven men and seven women awarded $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages to the plaintiff against Ron Edwards, Imperial Wizard of the group, and Jarred Hensley, who participated in the attack.[102]

Mississippi correctional institutions

Further information: Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility and East Mississippi Correctional Facility

Together with the ACLU National Prison Project, the SPLC filed a class-action suit in November 2010 against the owner/operators of the private Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility in Leake County, Mississippi, and the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDC). They charged that conditions, including under-staffing and neglect of medical care, produced numerous and repeated abuses of youthful prisoners, high rates of violence and injury, and that one prisoner suffered brain damage because of inmate-on-inmate attacks.[103] A federal civil rights investigation was undertaken by the United States Department of Justice. In settling the suit, Mississippi ended its contract with GEO Group in 2012. Additionally, under the court decree, the MDC moved the youthful offenders to state-run units. In 2012, Mississippi opened a new youthful offender unit at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County.[104] The state also agreed to not subject youthful offenders to solitary confinement and a court monitor conducted regular reviews of conditions at the facility.[105]

Also with the ACLU Prison Project, the SPLC filed a class-action suit in May 2013 against Management and Training Corporation (MTC), the for-profit operator of the private East Mississippi Correctional Facility, and the MDC.[106] Management and Training Corporation had been awarded a contract for this and two other facilities in Mississippi in 2012 following the removal of GEO Group. The suit charged failure of MTC to make needed improvements, and to maintain proper conditions and treatment for this special needs population of prisoners.[107] In 2015 the court granted the plaintiffs' motion for class certification.[108][needs update]

Polk County, Florida Sheriff

In 2012, the SPLC initiated a class action federal lawsuit against the Polk County, Florida sheriff, Grady Judd, alleging that seven juveniles confined by the sheriff were suffering in improper conditions.[109] U.S. District Court Judge Steven D. Merryday found in favor of Judd, who said the SPLC's allegations "were not supported by the facts or court precedence [sic]."[110] The judge wrote that "the conditions of juvenile detention at (Central County Jail) are not consistent with (Southern Poverty's) dark, grim, and condemning portrayal."[111] While the county sheriff's department did not recover an estimated $1 million in attorney's fees defending the case, Judge Merryday did award $103,000 in court costs to Polk County.[112]

Andrew Anglin and The Daily Stormer

In April 2017, the SPLC filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Tanya Gersh, accusing Andrew Anglin, publisher of the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, of instigating an anti-Semitic harassment campaign against Gersh, a Whitefish, Montana, real estate agent.[113][114] In July 2019, a judge issued a $14 million dollar default judgment against Anglin, who is in hiding and has refused to appear in court.[115][116][117]

Lawsuits and criticism against the SPLC

In October 2014, the SPLC added Ben Carson to its extremist watch list, citing his association with groups it considers extreme, and his "linking of gays with pedophiles".[118] Following criticism, the SPLC concluded its profile of Carson did not meet its standards, removed his listing, and apologized to him in February 2015.[119]

In October 2016, the SPLC published its "Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists",[120] which listed the British activist Maajid Nawaz and a nonprofit group he founded, the Quilliam Foundation.[19][121] Nawaz, who identifies as a "liberal, reform Muslim", denounced the listing as a "smear",[122] saying that the SPLC listing had made him a target of jihadists.[123][124] In June 2018, the SPLC issued an apology, stating:

Given our understanding of the views of Mr. Nawaz and Quilliam, it was our opinion at the time that the Field Guide was published that their inclusion was warranted. But after getting a deeper understanding of their views and after hearing from others for whom we have great respect, we realize that we were simply wrong to have included Mr. Nawaz and Quilliam in the Field Guide in the first place.[125]

Along with the apology, the SPLC paid US$3.375 million to Nawaz and the Quilliam Foundation in a settlement.[126][125][127] Nawaz said about the settlement that Quilliam "will continue to combat extremists by defying Muslim stereotypes, calling out fundamentalism in our own communities, and speaking out against anti-Muslim hate."[128][129] The SPLC ultimately removed the Field Guide from its website.[19]

In August 2017, a defamation lawsuit was filed against the SPLC by the D. James Kennedy Ministries for describing it as an "active hate group" because of their views on LGBT rights.[130][131][132] The SPLC lists D. James Kennedy Ministries and its predecessor, Truth in Action, as anti-LGBT hate groups because of what the SPLC describes as the group's history of spreading homophobic propaganda, including D. James Kennedy's false statement that "homosexuals prey on adolescent boys", and false claims about the transmission of AIDS.[133][134] On February 21, 2018, a federal magistrate judge recommended that the suit be dismissed with prejudice, concluding that D. James Kennedy Ministries could not show that it had been libeled.[135] On September 19, 2019, the lawsuit was dismissed by Judge Myron H. Thompson, who ruled that the "SPLC's labeling of the group as [a hate group] is protected by the First Amendment."[136]

In March 2018, several journalists, including Max Blumenthal, were mentioned in an article by Alexander Reid Ross which the SPLC retracted after receiving complaints from those journalists that the article falsely portrayed them as "white supremacists, fascists, anti-Semites, and engaging in a conspiracy with the Putin regime to promote such views"; the Center's letter explaining its retraction of the article apologizing to Blumenthal and the other journalists who believed they had been falsely portrayed.[137][138] The SPLC was criticized for taking down this article and was accused of caving in to pressure. The article argued that the dissemination of conspiracy theories around such issues as the Syrian Civil War (about the White Helmets and child refugees) were intended to co-opt leftist anti-imperialism in the service of a fascist agenda.[139][140][141] Subsequently, the SPLC retracted two other articles written by Alexander Reid Ross on the topic of Russian campaigns to influence Western public opinion.[142][143]

In 2019, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) sued the SPLC for designating the CIS as a hate group, claiming it constituted fraud under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.[144][145] The SPLC defended its decision and said the group "richly deserved" the designation.[citation needed] Cornell law professor William A. Jacobson, a longtime critic of the SPLC, criticized the listing of the CIS as "pos[ing] a danger of being exploited as an excuse to silence speech and to skew political debate."[146] The lawsuit was dismissed in September 2019 for failure to state a claim; Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that the CIS could not show any violations of the RICO statute.[147]

In February 2019, several months after resigning as chairman of the Proud Boys, Gavin McInnes filed a defamation lawsuit against the SPLC.[148][149] The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Alabama over the SPLC's designation of the Proud Boys as a "general hate" group.[150][151] The SPLC took the lawsuit "as a compliment" and an indication that "we're doing our job."[152] On its website, SPLC said that "McInnes plays a duplicitous rhetorical game: rejecting white nationalism and, in particular, the term 'alt-right' while espousing some of its central tenets" and that the group's "rank-and-file [members] and leaders regularly spout white nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists. They are known for anti-Muslim and misogynistic rhetoric. Proud Boys have appeared alongside other hate groups at extremist gatherings like the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville."[153][154][151] McInnes is represented by Ronald Coleman. In addition to defamation, McInnes claimed tortious interference with economic advantage, "false light invasion of privacy" and "aiding and abetting employment discrimination".[155] The day after filing the suit, McInnes announced that he had been re-hired by the Canadian far-right media group The Rebel Media.[156] The SPLC filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in July 2019.[157]

Projects and publishing platforms

Hate Map

Main articles: List of organizations designated by the SPLC as hate groups and List of organizations designated by the SPLC as anti-LGBT hate groups

In 1990, the SPLC began to publish an "annual census of hate groups operating within the United States".[158]

Classifications and listings of hate groups

Over the years the classifications and listings of hate groups expanded to reflect current social phenomena. By the 2000s, the term "hate groups" included organizations it has assessed either "attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics".[11] The SPLC says that hate group activities may include speeches, marches, rallies, meetings, publishing, and leafleting. While some of these activities may include criminal acts, such as violence, not all the activities tracked by the SPLC are illegal or criminal.[11][159]

Groups that have been included as "hate groups" by the SPLC who reject that labelling include, for example, self-described men's rights groups A Voice for Men and Return of Kings, which the SPLC had described as "male supremacist", according to a 2018 Washington Post article.[160]

The SPLC's identification and listings of hate groups and extremists has been the subject of controversy. The authors of the 2009 book The White Separatist Movement in the United States, sociologists Betty A. Dobratz and Stephanie L. Shanks-Meile, who used the findings of the SPLC and other watchdog groups, said that the SPLC chose its causes with funding and donations in mind.[161][162][163] Concerns have been raised that people and groups designated as "hate groups" by the SPLC were being targeted by protests or violence that prevent them from speaking. The SPLC stands behind the vast majority of its listings.[17][164][165] In 2018, David A. Graham wrote in The Atlantic that while criticism of the SPLC had long existed, the sources of such criticism have expanded recently to include "sympathetic observers and fellow researchers on hate groups" concerned about the organization "mixing its research and activist strains".[19]

Laird Wilcox, an analyst of political fringe movements, has said the SPLC has taken an incautious approach to assigning the labels "hate group" and "extremist".[166] Mark Potok of Southern Poverty Law Center responded that Wilcox "had an ax to grind for a great many years" and engaged in name calling against others doing anti-racist work.[167]

In 2009, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) argued that allies of America's Voice and Media Matters had used the SPLC designation of FAIR as a hate group to "engage in unsubstantiated, invidious name-calling, smearing millions of people in this movement."[168] FAIR and its leadership have been criticized by the SPLC as being sympathetic to, or overtly supportive of, white supremacist and identitarian ideologies, as the group's late founder had stated his belief that the United States should remain a majority-white country.[169]

In 2010, a group of Republican politicians and conservative organizations criticized the SPLC in full-page advertisements in two Washington, D.C., newspapers for what they described as "character assassination" because the SPLC had listed the Family Research Council (FRC) as a hate group for alleged "defaming of gays and lesbians".[18][170]

In August 2012, a gunman entered the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Family Research Council with the intent to kill employees and smear Chick-fil-A sandwiches on the victims' faces.[171] The gunman, Floyd Lee Corkins, stated that he chose FRC as a target because it was listed as an anti-gay group on the SPLC's website.[172] A security guard was wounded but stopped Corkins from shooting anyone else. In the wake of the shooting, the SPLC was again criticized for listing FRC as an anti-gay hate group, including by liberal columnist Dana Milbank,[173] while others defended the categorization. The SPLC defended its listing of anti-gay hate groups, stating that the groups were selected not because of their religious views, but on their "propagation of known falsehoods about LGBT people... that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities."[174]

SPLC Hatewatch (blog)

The Hatewatch blog, created in c. 2007, publishes the work of its teams, including investigative journalists who "monitor and expose" activities of the "American radical right".[175] Initially, its precursor—the "Klanwatch" project—which was established in 1981, focused on monitoring KKK activities. The Hatewatch blog, along with the "Teaching Tolerance" program and the Intelligence Report, highlights SPLC's work.[26]

An in-depth 2018 Hatewatch report examined the roots and evolution of black-on-white crime rhetoric, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 2010s. According to the report, "[m]isrepresented crime statistics" on "black-on-white crime" have become a "main propaganda point of America's hate movement".[176] The report described how Dylann Roof, the perpetrator of the June 17, 2015, 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".[176] One of the first sources was the Council of Conservative Citizens. The report shows that on November 22, 2015, then-Presidential Candidate Donald Trump retweeted a chart that had "originated from a neo-Nazi account" which displayed "bogus crime statistics".[176] The SPLC report cited a November 23, 2005, Washington Post article that fact checked the figures in the graph.[177] The tweet said that "81 percent of whites are killed by black people", while the 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.[176]

Teaching Tolerance

 
Closeup of the Civil Rights Memorial

SPLC's projects include the website Tolerance.org, which provides news on tolerance issues, education for children, guidebooks for activists, and resources for parents and teachers.[178] The website received Webby Awards in 2002 and 2004 for Best Activism.[179] Another product of Tolerance.org is the "10 Ways To Fight Hate on Campus: A Response Guide for College Activists" booklet.[180]

Documentaries

The SPLC also produces documentary films. Two have won Academy Awards for Documentary Short Subject: A Time for Justice (1994) and Mighty Times: The Children's March (2004).[181] In 2017 the SPLC began developing a six-part series with Black Box Management to document "the normalization of far-right extremism in the age of Donald Trump."[182]

Cooperation with law enforcement

The SPLC cooperates with, and offers training to, law enforcement agencies, focusing "on the history, background, leaders, and activities of far-right extremists in the United States".[183] The FBI has partnered with the SPLC and many other organizations "to establish rapport, share information, address concerns, and cooperate in solving problems" related to hate crimes.[184] In a November 2018 briefing of law enforcement officials in Clark County, Washington, concerning the Proud Boys FBI agents suggested the use of various websites for more information, including that of the SPLC.[185] The organization urged Chicago to fire a policeman who allegedly hid his association with the Proud Boys.[186]

Publications

SPLC produces a number of publications.[187]

Intelligence Report

Since 1981, the SPLC's Intelligence Project has published a quarterly Intelligence Report that monitors what the SPLC considers radical right hate groups and extremists in the United States.[188] The Intelligence Report provides information regarding organizational efforts and tactics of these groups and persons, and has been cited by scholars, including Rory M. McVeigh and David Mark Chalmers, as a reliable and comprehensive source on U.S. right-wing extremism and hate groups.[8]: 188 [189] In 2013 the SPLC donated the Intelligence Project's documentation to the library of Duke University.[190] The SPLC also publishes HateWatch Weekly, a newsletter that follows racism and extremism, and the Hatewatch blog, whose subtitle is "Keeping an Eye on the Radical Right".[191]

Two articles published in Intelligence Report have won "Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism" awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. "Communing with the Council", written by Heidi Beirich and Bob Moser, took third place for Investigative Journalism in the Magazine Division in 2004, and "Southern Gothic", by David Holthouse and Casey Sanchez, took second place for Feature Reporting in the Magazine Division in 2007.[192]

Since 2001, the SPLC has released an annual issue of the Intelligence Project called Year in Hate, later renamed Year in Hate and Extremism, in which it presents statistics on the numbers of hate groups in America. The current format of the report covers racial hate groups, nativist hate groups, and other right-wing extremist groups such as groups within the Patriot Movement.[193] Jesse Walker, writing in Reason.com, criticized the 2016 report, questioning whether the count was reliable, as it focused on the number of groups rather than the number of people in those groups or the size of the groups. Walker gives the example that the 2016 report itself concedes an increase in the number of KKK groups could be due to two large groups falling apart, leading to members creating smaller local groups.[194]

Immigration

SPLC also studies, works, and publishes on immigration issues.[195] They characterize the H-2 visa guest worker program as "close to slavery".[195]

Notable publications and media coverage on the SPLC

In May 1988, journalist John Egerton published his article entitled "The Klan Basher" in Foundation News.[196] In July 1988, he published a similar article, entitled "Poverty Palace: How the Southern Poverty Law Center got rich fighting the Klan", in The Progressive.[197] A 1991 book entitled Shades of Gray: Dispatches from the Modern South included a chapter by Egerton on this theme, entitled "Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center".[198]

In 1994, the Montgomery Advertiser published an eight-part critical report on the SPLC.[199] The series was nominated as one of three finalists for a 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for "its probe of questionable management practices and self-interest at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the nation's best-endowed civil rights charity."[200] According to the series, the SPLC had exaggerated the threat posed by the Klan and similar groups in order to raise money, discriminated against black employees, and used misleading fundraising tactics.[201] From 1984 to 1994, the SPLC raised about $62 million in contributions and spent about $21 million on programs, according to the newspaper.[5] SPLC's co-founder Joe Levin rejected the Advertiser's claims, saying that the series showed a lack of interest in the center's programs. Levin said that the newspaper had an obsessive interest in the SPLC's financial affairs and Mr. Dees' personal life, in order to smear the center and Mr. Dees."[215]

David Mark Chalmers, who is the author of Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan published in 1987, also wrote a follow up, Backfire, Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement in 2003, in which he described the SPLC's role in the decline of the Klan.[8]

In 2006, a chapter on the SPLC by was published in the Encyclopedia of American civil liberties which described the history of the SPLC and its co-founder Morris Dees.[5]: 1500 [Notes 2]

The National Geographic Channel television series included the 2008 episode entitled "Inside American Terror", which covered the SPLC's successful lawsuit against the Ku Klux Klan.[30]

In their 2009 book The White Separatist Movement in the United States: 'White Power, White Pride!', sociologists Betty A. Dobratz and Stephanie L. Shanks-Meile said that the SPLC's Klanwatch Intelligence Reports sometimes portrayed the KKK as more "militant and dangerous with higher turnouts" than what they personally had observed.[161]: 1–3 

In 2013, J.M. Berger wrote in Foreign Policy that media organizations should be more cautious when citing the SPLC and ADL, arguing that they are "not objective purveyors of data".[216]

In their 2015 book Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints and Voices, Roger Chapman and James Ciment cited the criticism of SPLC by journalist Ken Silverstein, who said that the SPLC's fundraising appeals and finances were deceptive.[217]

Laurence Leamer's 2016 book, entitled The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan, centred around the role played by Morris Dees as SPLC's co-founder, who won the case against the Klan which provided the family of the teenager Michael Donald, lynched by the Klan in 1981 in Mobile, Alabama, with restitution from the Klan.[218][219]

Marc Thiessen, in a June 2018 opinion piece for The Washington Post, asserted that the SPLC had lost its credibility and "become a caricature of itself".[220]

In the wake of Morris Dees' dismissal in March 2019, former SPLC staffer Bob Moser published an article in The New Yorker, "The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center", in which he described his disappointment with what the SPLC had become.[20]

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ In his 2003 publication, Chalmers warned that the Klan had given way to the next generation of hate groups.
  2. ^ Finkelman's Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties was republished in 2017 in London by Taylor and Francis.

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General and cited references

  • Dees, Morris; Fiffer, Steve (1991). A Season for Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0684191898.
  • Dees, Morris; Fiffer, Steve (1993). Hate on Trial: The Case Against America's Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi. New York: Villard Books. ISBN 978-0679406143.
  • Michael, George (2012). Lone Wolf Terror and the Rise of Leaderless Resistance. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press. ISBN 978-0826518552.
  • Wilcox, Laird (2002). "Chapter 12 'Who Watches the Watchman?'". In Kaplan, Jeffrey; Lööw, Heléne (eds.). The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press. pp. 309–10. ISBN 978-0759116580. Retrieved May 15, 2017.

Further reading

  • Fleming, Maria, ed. (2001), A Place at the Table: Struggles for Equality in America, New York: Oxford University Press in association with the Southern Poverty Law Center, ISBN 978-0195150360

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SPLC redirects here For other uses see SPLC disambiguation The Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC is an American 501 c 3 nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation 3 Based in Montgomery Alabama it is known for its legal cases against white supremacist groups for its classification of hate groups and other extremist organizations and for promoting tolerance education programs 4 5 1500 The SPLC was founded by Morris Dees Joseph J Levin Jr and Julian Bond in 1971 as a civil rights law firm in Montgomery 6 Bond served as president of the board between 1971 and 1979 7 Southern Poverty Law CenterFoundedAugust 1971 51 years ago August 1971 FoundersMorris Dees Joseph J Levin Jr Julian BondTypePublic interest law firm Civil rights advocacy organizationTax ID no 63 0598743 EIN FocusHate groups Racism Civil rightsLocationMontgomery AlabamaCoordinates32 22 36 N 86 18 12 W 32 37667 N 86 30333 W 32 37667 86 30333 Coordinates 32 22 36 N 86 18 12 W 32 37667 N 86 30333 W 32 37667 86 30333Area servedUnited StatesProductLegal representation Educational materialsKey peopleMargaret Huang President and CEO Bryan Fair Board Chairman Revenue 136 3 million 2018 FY 1 Endowment 471 0 million 2018 FY 1 Employees254 in 2011 2 WebsiteSPLCenter orgIn 1980 the SPLC began a litigation strategy of filing civil suits for monetary damages on behalf of the victims of violence from the Ku Klux Klan 8 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 9 10 Since the 2000s the SPLC 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 11 and extremists 12 have often been described as authoritative and are widely accepted and cited in academic and media coverage of such groups and related issues 13 14 15 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 16 17 18 19 There have also been accusations of misuse or unnecessarily extravagant use of funds by the organization leading some employees to call the headquarters Poverty Palace 20 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 and sexual harassment 21 Margaret Huang who was formerly the Chief Executive at Amnesty International USA was named as president and CEO of the SPLC in early February 2020 22 Contents 1 History 1 1 Leadership upheaval amid harassment allegations 2 Administration 3 Fundraising and finances 3 1 Charity ratings 4 Criminal attacks and plots against the SPLC 5 Notable SPLC civil cases on behalf of clients 5 1 Sims v Amos 1974 5 2 Brown v Invisible Empire KKK 1980 5 3 Vietnamese fishermen 1981 5 4 Person v Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan 1982 5 5 United Klans of America 5 6 White Aryan Resistance 5 7 Church of the Creator 5 8 Christian Knights of the KKK 5 9 Aryan Nations 5 10 Ten Commandments monument 5 11 Leiva v Ranch Rescue 5 12 Billy Ray Johnson 5 13 Imperial Klans of America 5 14 Mississippi correctional institutions 5 15 Polk County Florida Sheriff 5 16 Andrew Anglin and The Daily Stormer 6 Lawsuits and criticism against the SPLC 7 Projects and publishing platforms 7 1 Hate Map 7 1 1 Classifications and listings of hate groups 7 2 SPLC Hatewatch blog 7 3 Teaching Tolerance 7 4 Documentaries 7 5 Cooperation with law enforcement 7 5 1 Publications 7 6 Intelligence Report 7 7 Immigration 8 Notable publications and media coverage on the SPLC 9 Explanatory notes 10 References 10 1 Citations 10 2 General and cited references 11 Further reading 12 External linksHistory The SPLC headquarters in Montgomery Alabama The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded by civil rights lawyers Morris Dees and Joseph J Levin Jr in August 1971 23 as a law firm originally focused on issues such as fighting poverty racial discrimination and the death penalty in the United States Dees asked civil rights leader Julian Bond to serve as president a largely honorary position he resigned in 1979 but remained on the board of directors until his death in 2015 In 1979 Dees and the SPLC began filing civil lawsuits against Ku Klux Klan chapters and similar organizations for monetary damages on behalf of their victims The favorable verdicts from these suits served to bankrupt the KKK and other targeted organizations 24 According to a 1996 article in the New York Times Dees and the SPLC have been credited with devising innovative legal ways to cripple hate groups including seizing their assets 25 Some civil libertarians said that SPLC s tactics chill free speech and set legal precedents that could be applied against activist groups which are not hate groups 24 In 1981 the Center began its Klanwatch project to monitor the activities of the KKK That project now called Hatewatch was later expanded to include seven other types of hate organizations 26 In 1986 the entire legal staff of the SPLC excluding Dees resigned as the organization shifted from traditional civil rights work toward fighting right wing extremism 24 In 1989 the Center unveiled its Civil Rights Memorial which was designed by Maya Lin 27 In 1995 the Montgomery Advertiser won a Pulitzer Prize recognition for work that probed management self interest questionable practices and employee racial discrimination allegations in the SPLC 28 20 The Center s Teaching Tolerance project was initiated in 1991 29 In 2008 the SPLC and Dees were featured on National Geographic s Inside American Terror explaining their litigation strategy against the Ku Klux Klan 30 In 2011 the SPLC was involved in high profile state fights 31 including the battle over the Georgia House Bill 87 HB 87 The SPLC joined with the ACLU the Asian Law Caucus and the National Immigration Law Center in June 2011 to file a lawsuit challenging HB 87 32 which resulted in a permanent injunction in 2013 blocking multiple provisions of the law 33 In 2013 Teaching Tolerance was cited as of the most widely read periodicals dedicated to diversity and social justice in education 34 In 2016 the SPLC s ranks swelled and its endowment surged after President Donald Trump was elected resulting in the hiring of 200 new employees 35 In March 2019 founder Morris Dees was fired and in April Karen Baynes Dunning was named as interim president and CEO 36 After a tumultuous year in mid December 2019 staff at the SPLC voted to unionize with 142 in favor and 45 against 31 The SPLC had long been dogged by accusations of internal discrimination against minority employees particularly in the area of promotions 22 A new president and CEO Margaret Huang was named in early February 2020 22 More recently the SPLC and the ACLU have been involved in battles over the treatment of inmates in the state s prisons 31 including an emergency request in April 2020 for the release of tens of thousands of people in ICE custody if ICE cannot provide protection for vulnerable inmates during the COVID 19 pandemic The federal court injunction was filed as part of an existing class action lawsuit regarding conditions in ICE facilities 37 In 2018 The SPLC filed suits related to the conditions of incarceration for adults and juveniles 38 Leadership upheaval amid harassment allegations In the spring of 2019 an assistant legal director resigned over racial and gender equity concerns at the organization according to the Montgomery Advertiser 31 In March 2019 the SPLC fired founder Morris Dees for undisclosed reasons and removed his bio from its website In a statement regarding the firing the SPLC announced it would be bringing in an outside organization to conduct a comprehensive assessment of our internal climate and workplace practices 39 40 41 Following the dismissal a letter signed by two dozen SPLC employees was sent to management expressing concern that allegations of mistreatment sexual harassment gender discrimination and racism threaten the moral authority of this organization and our integrity along with it 42 One former employee wrote that the unchecked power of lavishly compensated white men at the top of the SPLC contributed to a culture which made black and female employees the targets of harassment 20 A week later President Richard Cohen and legal director Rhonda Brownstein announced their resignations amid the internal upheaval The associate legal director quit alleging concerns regarding workplace culture 43 Cohen said Whatever problems exist at the SPLC happened on my watch so I take responsibility for them 44 45 AdministrationIn early February 2020 Margaret Huang who was formerly the Chief Executive at Amnesty International USA was named as president and CEO of the SPLC 22 Huang replaced Karen Baynes Dunning a former juvenile court judge who had served as interim president and CEO since April 2019 after founder Morris Dees was fired in March 2019 36 The SPLC had appointed Tina Tchen a former chief of staff for former first lady Michelle Obama to review and investigate any issues with the organization s workplace environment related to Dees firing 20 Fundraising and financesThe SPLC s activities including litigation are supported by fundraising efforts and it does not accept any fees or share in legal judgments awarded to clients it represents in court Starting in 1974 the SPLC set aside money for its endowment stating that it was convinced that the day would come when non profit groups would no longer be able to rely on support through mail because of posting and printing costs 46 The Los Angeles Times reported that by 2017 the SPLC s financial resources nearly totaled half a billion dollars in assets 47 For 2018 its endowment was approximately 471 million per its annual report and SPLC spent 49 of its revenue on programs 1 According to the Montgomery Advertiser the SPLC had received significant financial support with revenues almost 122 million and total assets of 492 3 million as of September 30 2018 31 For the fiscal year ending October 31 2021 SPLC reported revenue of 133 million and total assets of 801 million including 770 million in investments 48 Prior to his departure in 2019 Dee s role at the Center was focused on donor relations and expanding the Center s financial resources 47 Charity ratings In September 2019 based on 2018 figures Charity Navigator rated the SPLC four out of four stars 49 The Center received an overall score of 90 96 out of 100 up from its 2016 rating of 85 5 87 58 on financial health matters up from 79 7 in 2016 and 97 on accountability and transparency the same rating as in 2016 49 50 Charity Navigator included in their report that the SPLC had 1 165 240 followers on Facebook and 6 legal practice groups and were monitoring 1 020 hate groups 49 SPLC also earned the GuideStar Platinum Seal of Transparency which is given to organizations that voluntarily share the measures of progress and results they use to pursue their mission 49 In March 2019 CharityWatch downgraded the SPLC from B to F because the SPLC has 6 6 years worth of available assets in reserve The SPLC spent only 64 percent of its funds on its programs It cost 15 to raise 100 51 According to CharityWatch the SPLC s total expenses as of March 2019 amounted to 74 000 000 and contributions totaled 111 000 000 51 Criminal attacks and plots against the SPLCIn July 1983 the SPLC headquarters was firebombed destroying the building and records 52 In February 1985 Klansmen Joe M Garner and Roy T Downs Jr along with Klan sympathizer Charles Bailey pleaded guilty to conspiring to intimidate oppress and threaten members of black organizations represented by SPLC 53 The SPLC built a new headquarters building from 1999 to 2001 54 In 1984 Morris Dees became an assassination target of The Order a revolutionary white supremacist group 55 By 2007 according to Dees more than 30 people had been jailed in connection with plots to kill him or to blow up SPLC offices 56 In 1995 four men were indicted for planning to blow up the SPLC headquarters 57 In May 1998 three white supremacists were arrested for allegedly planning a nationwide campaign of assassinations and bombings targeting Morris Dees and his Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama as well as the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles the Anti Defamation League in New York an undisclosed federal judge in Illinois and a black radio show host in Missouri 58 Notable SPLC civil cases on behalf of clientsThe Southern Poverty Law Center has initiated a number of civil cases seeking injunctive relief and monetary awards on behalf of its clients The SPLC has said it does not accept any portion of monetary judgments 59 verification needed 60 failed verification Sims v Amos 1974 An early SPLC case was Sims v Amos consolidated with Nixon v Brewer in which the U S District Court for the Middle of Alabama ordered the state legislature to reapportion its election system The result of the decision which the U S Supreme Court affirmed was that fifteen black legislators were elected in 1974 61 Brown v Invisible Empire KKK 1980 In 1979 the Klan began a summer of attacks against civil rights groups beginning in Alabama In Decatur Alabama Klan members clashed with a group of civil rights marchers There were a hundred Klan members carrying bats ax handles and guns A black woman Bernice Brown was shot and other marchers were violently attacked In Brown v Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan filed in 1980 in the USDC Northern District of Alabama the SPLC sued the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan on behalf of plaintiffs Brown and other black marchers 62 The civil suit which was settled in 1990 required Klansmen to pay damages perform community service and refrain from white supremacist activity 62 Chalmers wrote in Backfire that the Klan had been in serious decline since the end of the 1970s He described the Klan summer of 1979 63 as a catastrophe for the Klan as the SPLC s newly established Klanwatch which became a powerful weapon that tracked and litigated the Klan 8 112 According to Chalmers b eginning with the Decatur street confrontation the SPLC s Klanwatch began suing various Klans in federal court for civil rights violations and as a result the Klan lost credibility and its resources were depleted 8 112 Notes 1 As a result of the SPLC the FBI reopen their case against the Klan and nine Klansmen were eventually convicted of criminal charges related to the Decatur confrontation of 1979 62 Vietnamese fishermen 1981 In 1981 the SPLC took Ku Klux Klan leader Louis Beam s Klan associated militia the Texas Emergency Reserve TER 64 to court to stop racial harassment and intimidation of Vietnamese shrimpers in and around Galveston Bay 65 The Klan s actions against approximately 100 Vietnamese shrimpers in the area included a cross burning 66 sniper fire aimed at them and arsonists burning their boats 67 In May 1981 U S District Court judge Gabrielle McDonald 68 issued a preliminary injunction against the Klan requiring them to cease intimidating threatening or harassing the Vietnamese 69 McDonald eventually found the TER and Beam liable for tortious interference violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act and of various civil rights statutes and thus permanently enjoined them against violence threatening behavior and other harassment of the Vietnamese shrimpers 68 The SPLC also uncovered an obscure Texas law that forbade private armies in that state 70 McDonald found that Beam s organization violated it and hence ordered the TER to close its military training camp 70 Person v Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan 1982 In 1982 armed members of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan terrorized Bobby Person a black prison guard and members of his family They harassed and threatened others including a white woman who had befriended blacks In 1984 Person became the lead plaintiff in Person v Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan a lawsuit brought by the SPLC in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina The harassment and threats continued during litigation and the court issued an order prohibiting any person from interfering with others inside the courthouse 71 In January 1985 the court issued a consent order that prohibited the group s Grand Dragon Frazier Glenn Miller Jr and his followers from operating a paramilitary organization holding parades in black neighborhoods and from harassing threatening or harming any black person or white persons who associated with black persons Subsequently the court dismissed the plaintiffs claim for damages 71 Within a year the court found Miller and his followers now calling themselves the White Patriot Party in criminal contempt for violating the consent order Miller was sentenced to six months in prison followed by a three year probationary period during which he was banned from associating with members of any racist group such as the White Patriot Party Miller refused to obey the terms of his probation He made underground declarations of war against Jews and the federal government before being arrested again Found guilty of weapons violations he went to federal prison for three years 72 4 73 United Klans of America In 1987 SPLC won a case against the United Klans of America for the lynching of Michael Donald a black teenager in Mobile Alabama 74 The SPLC used an unprecedented legal strategy of holding an organization responsible for the crimes of individual members to help produce a 7 million judgment for the victim s mother 74 The verdict forced United Klans of America into bankruptcy Its national headquarters was sold for approximately 52 000 to help satisfy the judgment 75 In 1987 five members of a Klan offshoot the White Patriot Party were indicted for stealing military weaponry and plotting to kill Dees 76 The SPLC has since successfully used this precedent to force numerous Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups into bankruptcy 77 The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery White Aryan Resistance On November 13 1988 in Portland Oregon three white supremacist members of East Side White Pride and White Aryan Resistance WAR fatally assaulted Mulugeta Seraw an Ethiopian man who came to the United States to attend college 78 In October 1990 the SPLC won a civil case on behalf of Seraw s family against WAR s operator Tom Metzger and his son John for a total of 12 5 million 79 80 The Metzgers declared bankruptcy and WAR went out of business The cost of work for the trial was absorbed by the Anti Defamation League ADL as well as the SPLC 81 As of August 2007 update Metzger still makes payments to Seraw s family 82 needs update Church of the Creator In May 1991 Harold Mansfield a black U S Navy war veteran was murdered by George Loeb a member of the neo Nazi Church of the Creator now called the Creativity Movement 83 SPLC represented the victim s family in a civil case and won a judgment of 1 million from the church in March 1994 84 The church transferred ownership to William Pierce head of the National Alliance to avoid paying money to Mansfield s heirs 85 The SPLC filed suit against Pierce for his role in the fraudulent scheme and won an 85 000 judgment against him in 1995 86 87 The amount was upheld on appeal and the money was collected prior to Pierce s death in 2002 87 Christian Knights of the KKK The SPLC won a 37 8 million verdict on behalf of Macedonia Baptist Church a 100 year old black church in Manning South Carolina against two Ku Klux Klan chapters and five Klansmen Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and Invisible Empire Inc in July 1998 88 The money was awarded stemming from arson convictions these Klan units burned down the historic black church in 1995 89 Morris Dees told the press If we put the Christian Knights out of business what s that worth We don t look at what we can collect It s what the jury thinks this egregious conduct is worth that matters along with the message it sends According to The Washington Post the amount is the largest ever civil award for damages in a hate crime case 90 Aryan Nations In September 2000 the SPLC won a 6 3 million judgment against the Aryan Nations via an Idaho jury who awarded punitive and compensatory damages to a woman and her son who were attacked by Aryan Nations guards 6 The lawsuit stemmed from the July 1998 attack when security guards at the Aryan Nations compound near Hayden Lake in northern Idaho shot at Victoria Keenan and her son 91 Bullets struck their car several times causing the car to crash An Aryan Nations member held the Keenans at gunpoint 91 As a result of the judgment Richard Butler turned over the 20 acre 81 000 m2 compound to the Keenans who sold the property to a philanthropist He donated the land to North Idaho College which designated the area as a peace park 92 Ten Commandments monument See also Roy Moore Ten Commandments monument controversy In 2002 the SPLC and the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit Glassroth v Moore against Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore for placing a display of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building Moore who had final authority over what decorations were to be placed in the Alabama State Judicial Building s Rotunda had installed a 5 280 pound 2 400 kg granite block three feet wide by three feet deep by four feet tall of the Ten Commandments late at night without the knowledge of any other court justice After defying several court rulings Moore was eventually removed from the court and the Supreme Court justices had the monument removed from the building 93 Leiva v Ranch Rescue In 2003 the SPLC the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and local attorneys filed a civil suit Leiva v Ranch Rescue in Jim Hogg County Texas against Ranch Rescue a vigilante paramilitary group and several of its associates seeking damages for assault and illegal detention of two illegal immigrants caught near the U S Mexico border In April 2005 SPLC obtained judgments totaling 1 million against Casey James Nethercott who was then Ranch Rescue s leader and the owner of an Arizona ranch Camp Thunderbird Joe Sutton who owned the Hebbronville ranch on which two illegal immigrants has been caught trespassing on March 18 2003 and Jack Foote the founder of Ranch Rescue 94 Sutton who had recruited Ranch Rescue to patrol the U S Mexico border region near his Hebbronville ranch 72 4 settled with an 100 000 out of court settlement 94 According to the New York Times since neither Nethercott or Foote defended themselves the judge issued default judgments of 850 000 against Mr Nethercott and 500 000 against Mr Foote 94 Neither men had substantial assets so Nethercott s 70 acre 280 000 m2 ranch Camp Thunderbird which had also served as Ranch Rescue s headquarters was seized to pay the judgment and surrendered to the two illegal immigrants from El Salvador Edwin Alfredo Mancia Gonzales and Fatima del Socorro Leiva Medina 94 SPLC staff worked also with Texas prosecutors to obtain a conviction against Nethercott for possession of a gun which was illegal for a felon Nethercott had served time in California for assault previously As a result he was sentenced to serve a five year sentence in a Texas prison 72 4 95 Billy Ray Johnson The SPLC brought a civil suit on behalf of Billy Ray Johnson a black mentally disabled man who was severely beaten by four white males in Texas and left bleeding in a ditch suffering permanent injuries In 2007 Johnson was awarded 9 million in damages by a Linden Texas jury 96 97 At a criminal trial the four men were convicted of assault and received sentences of 30 to 60 days in county jail 98 99 Imperial Klans of America In November 2008 the SPLC s case against the Imperial Klans of America IKA the nation s second largest Klan organization went to trial in Meade County Kentucky 100 The SPLC had filed suit for damages in July 2007 on behalf of Jordan Gruver and his mother against the IKA in Kentucky In July 2006 five Klan members went to the Meade County Fairgrounds in Brandenburg Kentucky to hand out business cards and flyers advertising a white only IKA function Two members of the Klan started calling Gruver a 16 year old boy of Panamanian descent a spic 101 Subsequently the boy 5 feet 3 inches 1 60 m and weighing 150 pounds 68 kg was beaten and kicked by the Klansmen one of whom was 6 feet 5 inches 1 96 m and 300 pounds 140 kg As a result the victim received two cracked ribs a broken left forearm multiple cuts and bruises and jaw injuries requiring extensive dental repair 101 In a related criminal case in February 2007 Jarred Hensley and Andrew Watkins were sentenced to three years in prison for beating Gruver 100 On November 14 2008 an all white jury of seven men and seven women awarded 1 5 million in compensatory damages and 1 million in punitive damages to the plaintiff against Ron Edwards Imperial Wizard of the group and Jarred Hensley who participated in the attack 102 Mississippi correctional institutions Further information Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility and East Mississippi Correctional Facility Together with the ACLU National Prison Project the SPLC filed a class action suit in November 2010 against the owner operators of the private Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility in Leake County Mississippi and the Mississippi Department of Corrections MDC They charged that conditions including under staffing and neglect of medical care produced numerous and repeated abuses of youthful prisoners high rates of violence and injury and that one prisoner suffered brain damage because of inmate on inmate attacks 103 A federal civil rights investigation was undertaken by the United States Department of Justice In settling the suit Mississippi ended its contract with GEO Group in 2012 Additionally under the court decree the MDC moved the youthful offenders to state run units In 2012 Mississippi opened a new youthful offender unit at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County 104 The state also agreed to not subject youthful offenders to solitary confinement and a court monitor conducted regular reviews of conditions at the facility 105 Also with the ACLU Prison Project the SPLC filed a class action suit in May 2013 against Management and Training Corporation MTC the for profit operator of the private East Mississippi Correctional Facility and the MDC 106 Management and Training Corporation had been awarded a contract for this and two other facilities in Mississippi in 2012 following the removal of GEO Group The suit charged failure of MTC to make needed improvements and to maintain proper conditions and treatment for this special needs population of prisoners 107 In 2015 the court granted the plaintiffs motion for class certification 108 needs update Polk County Florida Sheriff In 2012 the SPLC initiated a class action federal lawsuit against the Polk County Florida sheriff Grady Judd alleging that seven juveniles confined by the sheriff were suffering in improper conditions 109 U S District Court Judge Steven D Merryday found in favor of Judd who said the SPLC s allegations were not supported by the facts or court precedence sic 110 The judge wrote that the conditions of juvenile detention at Central County Jail are not consistent with Southern Poverty s dark grim and condemning portrayal 111 While the county sheriff s department did not recover an estimated 1 million in attorney s fees defending the case Judge Merryday did award 103 000 in court costs to Polk County 112 Andrew Anglin and The Daily Stormer In April 2017 the SPLC filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Tanya Gersh accusing Andrew Anglin publisher of the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer of instigating an anti Semitic harassment campaign against Gersh a Whitefish Montana real estate agent 113 114 In July 2019 a judge issued a 14 million dollar default judgment against Anglin who is in hiding and has refused to appear in court 115 116 117 Lawsuits and criticism against the SPLCIn October 2014 the SPLC added Ben Carson to its extremist watch list citing his association with groups it considers extreme and his linking of gays with pedophiles 118 Following criticism the SPLC concluded its profile of Carson did not meet its standards removed his listing and apologized to him in February 2015 119 In October 2016 the SPLC published its Field Guide to Anti Muslim Extremists 120 which listed the British activist Maajid Nawaz and a nonprofit group he founded the Quilliam Foundation 19 121 Nawaz who identifies as a liberal reform Muslim denounced the listing as a smear 122 saying that the SPLC listing had made him a target of jihadists 123 124 In June 2018 the SPLC issued an apology stating Given our understanding of the views of Mr Nawaz and Quilliam it was our opinion at the time that the Field Guide was published that their inclusion was warranted But after getting a deeper understanding of their views and after hearing from others for whom we have great respect we realize that we were simply wrong to have included Mr Nawaz and Quilliam in the Field Guide in the first place 125 Along with the apology the SPLC paid US 3 375 million to Nawaz and the Quilliam Foundation in a settlement 126 125 127 Nawaz said about the settlement that Quilliam will continue to combat extremists by defying Muslim stereotypes calling out fundamentalism in our own communities and speaking out against anti Muslim hate 128 129 The SPLC ultimately removed the Field Guide from its website 19 In August 2017 a defamation lawsuit was filed against the SPLC by the D James Kennedy Ministries for describing it as an active hate group because of their views on LGBT rights 130 131 132 The SPLC lists D James Kennedy Ministries and its predecessor Truth in Action as anti LGBT hate groups because of what the SPLC describes as the group s history of spreading homophobic propaganda including D James Kennedy s false statement that homosexuals prey on adolescent boys and false claims about the transmission of AIDS 133 134 On February 21 2018 a federal magistrate judge recommended that the suit be dismissed with prejudice concluding that D James Kennedy Ministries could not show that it had been libeled 135 On September 19 2019 the lawsuit was dismissed by Judge Myron H Thompson who ruled that the SPLC s labeling of the group as a hate group is protected by the First Amendment 136 In March 2018 several journalists including Max Blumenthal were mentioned in an article by Alexander Reid Ross which the SPLC retracted after receiving complaints from those journalists that the article falsely portrayed them as white supremacists fascists anti Semites and engaging in a conspiracy with the Putin regime to promote such views the Center s letter explaining its retraction of the article apologizing to Blumenthal and the other journalists who believed they had been falsely portrayed 137 138 The SPLC was criticized for taking down this article and was accused of caving in to pressure The article argued that the dissemination of conspiracy theories around such issues as the Syrian Civil War about the White Helmets and child refugees were intended to co opt leftist anti imperialism in the service of a fascist agenda 139 140 141 Subsequently the SPLC retracted two other articles written by Alexander Reid Ross on the topic of Russian campaigns to influence Western public opinion 142 143 In 2019 the Center for Immigration Studies CIS sued the SPLC for designating the CIS as a hate group claiming it constituted fraud under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act 144 145 The SPLC defended its decision and said the group richly deserved the designation citation needed Cornell law professor William A Jacobson a longtime critic of the SPLC criticized the listing of the CIS as pos ing a danger of being exploited as an excuse to silence speech and to skew political debate 146 The lawsuit was dismissed in September 2019 for failure to state a claim Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that the CIS could not show any violations of the RICO statute 147 In February 2019 several months after resigning as chairman of the Proud Boys Gavin McInnes filed a defamation lawsuit against the SPLC 148 149 The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Alabama over the SPLC s designation of the Proud Boys as a general hate group 150 151 The SPLC took the lawsuit as a compliment and an indication that we re doing our job 152 On its website SPLC said that McInnes plays a duplicitous rhetorical game rejecting white nationalism and in particular the term alt right while espousing some of its central tenets and that the group s rank and file members and leaders regularly spout white nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists They are known for anti Muslim and misogynistic rhetoric Proud Boys have appeared alongside other hate groups at extremist gatherings like the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville 153 154 151 McInnes is represented by Ronald Coleman In addition to defamation McInnes claimed tortious interference with economic advantage false light invasion of privacy and aiding and abetting employment discrimination 155 The day after filing the suit McInnes announced that he had been re hired by the Canadian far right media group The Rebel Media 156 The SPLC filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in July 2019 157 Projects and publishing platformsHate Map Main articles List of organizations designated by the SPLC as hate groups and List of organizations designated by the SPLC as anti LGBT hate groups In 1990 the SPLC began to publish an annual census of hate groups operating within the United States 158 Classifications and listings of hate groups Over the years the classifications and listings of hate groups expanded to reflect current social phenomena By the 2000s the term hate groups included organizations it has assessed either attack or malign an entire class of people typically for their immutable characteristics 11 The SPLC says that hate group activities may include speeches marches rallies meetings publishing and leafleting While some of these activities may include criminal acts such as violence not all the activities tracked by the SPLC are illegal or criminal 11 159 Groups that have been included as hate groups by the SPLC who reject that labelling include for example self described men s rights groups A Voice for Men and Return of Kings which the SPLC had described as male supremacist according to a 2018 Washington Post article 160 The SPLC s identification and listings of hate groups and extremists has been the subject of controversy The authors of the 2009 book The White Separatist Movement in the United States sociologists Betty A Dobratz and Stephanie L Shanks Meile who used the findings of the SPLC and other watchdog groups said that the SPLC chose its causes with funding and donations in mind 161 162 163 Concerns have been raised that people and groups designated as hate groups by the SPLC were being targeted by protests or violence that prevent them from speaking The SPLC stands behind the vast majority of its listings 17 164 165 In 2018 David A Graham wrote in The Atlantic that while criticism of the SPLC had long existed the sources of such criticism have expanded recently to include sympathetic observers and fellow researchers on hate groups concerned about the organization mixing its research and activist strains 19 Laird Wilcox an analyst of political fringe movements has said the SPLC has taken an incautious approach to assigning the labels hate group and extremist 166 Mark Potok of Southern Poverty Law Center responded that Wilcox had an ax to grind for a great many years and engaged in name calling against others doing anti racist work 167 In 2009 the Federation for American Immigration Reform FAIR argued that allies of America s Voice and Media Matters had used the SPLC designation of FAIR as a hate group to engage in unsubstantiated invidious name calling smearing millions of people in this movement 168 FAIR and its leadership have been criticized by the SPLC as being sympathetic to or overtly supportive of white supremacist and identitarian ideologies as the group s late founder had stated his belief that the United States should remain a majority white country 169 In 2010 a group of Republican politicians and conservative organizations criticized the SPLC in full page advertisements in two Washington D C newspapers for what they described as character assassination because the SPLC had listed the Family Research Council FRC as a hate group for alleged defaming of gays and lesbians 18 170 In August 2012 a gunman entered the Washington D C headquarters of the Family Research Council with the intent to kill employees and smear Chick fil A sandwiches on the victims faces 171 The gunman Floyd Lee Corkins stated that he chose FRC as a target because it was listed as an anti gay group on the SPLC s website 172 A security guard was wounded but stopped Corkins from shooting anyone else In the wake of the shooting the SPLC was again criticized for listing FRC as an anti gay hate group including by liberal columnist Dana Milbank 173 while others defended the categorization The SPLC defended its listing of anti gay hate groups stating that the groups were selected not because of their religious views but on their propagation of known falsehoods about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities 174 SPLC Hatewatch blog The Hatewatch blog created in c 2007 publishes the work of its teams including investigative journalists who monitor and expose activities of the American radical right 175 Initially its precursor the Klanwatch project which was established in 1981 focused on monitoring KKK activities The Hatewatch blog along with the Teaching Tolerance program and the Intelligence Report highlights SPLC s work 26 An in depth 2018 Hatewatch report examined the roots and evolution of black on white crime rhetoric from the mid nineteenth century to the late 2010s According to the report m isrepresented crime statistics on black on white crime have become a main propaganda point of America s hate movement 176 The report described how Dylann Roof the perpetrator of the June 17 2015 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 176 One of the first sources was the Council of Conservative Citizens The report shows that on November 22 2015 then Presidential Candidate Donald Trump retweeted a chart that had originated from a neo Nazi account which displayed bogus crime statistics 176 The SPLC report cited a November 23 2005 Washington Post article that fact checked the figures in the graph 177 The tweet said that 81 percent of whites are killed by black people while the 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 176 Teaching Tolerance Closeup of the Civil Rights Memorial SPLC s projects include the website Tolerance org which provides news on tolerance issues education for children guidebooks for activists and resources for parents and teachers 178 The website received Webby Awards in 2002 and 2004 for Best Activism 179 Another product of Tolerance org is the 10 Ways To Fight Hate on Campus A Response Guide for College Activists booklet 180 Documentaries The SPLC also produces documentary films Two have won Academy Awards for Documentary Short Subject A Time for Justice 1994 and Mighty Times The Children s March 2004 181 In 2017 the SPLC began developing a six part series with Black Box Management to document the normalization of far right extremism in the age of Donald Trump 182 Cooperation with law enforcement The SPLC cooperates with and offers training to law enforcement agencies focusing on the history background leaders and activities of far right extremists in the United States 183 The FBI has partnered with the SPLC and many other organizations to establish rapport share information address concerns and cooperate in solving problems related to hate crimes 184 In a November 2018 briefing of law enforcement officials in Clark County Washington concerning the Proud Boys FBI agents suggested the use of various websites for more information including that of the SPLC 185 The organization urged Chicago to fire a policeman who allegedly hid his association with the Proud Boys 186 Publications SPLC produces a number of publications 187 Intelligence Report Since 1981 the SPLC s Intelligence Project has published a quarterly Intelligence Report that monitors what the SPLC considers radical right hate groups and extremists in the United States 188 The Intelligence Report provides information regarding organizational efforts and tactics of these groups and persons and has been cited by scholars including Rory M McVeigh and David Mark Chalmers as a reliable and comprehensive source on U S right wing extremism and hate groups 8 188 189 In 2013 the SPLC donated the Intelligence Project s documentation to the library of Duke University 190 The SPLC also publishes HateWatch Weekly a newsletter that follows racism and extremism and the Hatewatch blog whose subtitle is Keeping an Eye on the Radical Right 191 Two articles published in Intelligence Report have won Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism awards from the Society of Professional Journalists Communing with the Council written by Heidi Beirich and Bob Moser took third place for Investigative Journalism in the Magazine Division in 2004 and Southern Gothic by David Holthouse and Casey Sanchez took second place for Feature Reporting in the Magazine Division in 2007 192 Since 2001 the SPLC has released an annual issue of the Intelligence Project called Year in Hate later renamed Year in Hate and Extremism in which it presents statistics on the numbers of hate groups in America The current format of the report covers racial hate groups nativist hate groups and other right wing extremist groups such as groups within the Patriot Movement 193 Jesse Walker writing in Reason com criticized the 2016 report questioning whether the count was reliable as it focused on the number of groups rather than the number of people in those groups or the size of the groups Walker gives the example that the 2016 report itself concedes an increase in the number of KKK groups could be due to two large groups falling apart leading to members creating smaller local groups 194 Immigration SPLC also studies works and publishes on immigration issues 195 They characterize the H 2 visa guest worker program as close to slavery 195 Notable publications and media coverage on the SPLCIn May 1988 journalist John Egerton published his article entitled The Klan Basher in Foundation News 196 In July 1988 he published a similar article entitled Poverty Palace How the Southern Poverty Law Center got rich fighting the Klan in The Progressive 197 A 1991 book entitled Shades of Gray Dispatches from the Modern South included a chapter by Egerton on this theme entitled Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center 198 In 1994 the Montgomery Advertiser published an eight part critical report on the SPLC 199 The series was nominated as one of three finalists for a 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for its probe of questionable management practices and self interest at the Southern Poverty Law Center the nation s best endowed civil rights charity 200 According to the series the SPLC had exaggerated the threat posed by the Klan and similar groups in order to raise money discriminated against black employees and used misleading fundraising tactics 201 From 1984 to 1994 the SPLC raised about 62 million in contributions and spent about 21 million on programs according to the newspaper 5 SPLC s co founder Joe Levin rejected the Advertiser s claims saying that the series showed a lack of interest in the center s programs Levin said that the newspaper had an obsessive interest in the SPLC s financial affairs and Mr Dees personal life in order to smear the center and Mr Dees 215 David Mark Chalmers who is the author of Hooded Americanism The History of the Ku Klux Klan published in 1987 also wrote a follow up Backfire Backfire How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement in 2003 in which he described the SPLC s role in the decline of the Klan 8 In 2006 a chapter on the SPLC by was published in the Encyclopedia of American civil liberties which described the history of the SPLC and its co founder Morris Dees 5 1500 Notes 2 The National Geographic Channel television series included the 2008 episode entitled Inside American Terror which covered the SPLC s successful lawsuit against the Ku Klux Klan 30 In their 2009 book The White Separatist Movement in the United States White Power White Pride sociologists Betty A Dobratz and Stephanie L Shanks Meile said that the SPLC s Klanwatch Intelligence Reports sometimes portrayed the KKK as more militant and dangerous with higher turnouts than what they personally had observed 161 1 3 In 2013 J M Berger wrote in Foreign Policy that media organizations should be more cautious when citing the SPLC and ADL arguing that they are not objective purveyors of data 216 In their 2015 book Culture Wars An Encyclopedia of Issues Viewpoints and Voices Roger Chapman and James Ciment cited the criticism of SPLC by journalist Ken Silverstein who said that the SPLC s fundraising appeals and finances were deceptive 217 Laurence Leamer s 2016 book entitled The Lynching The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan centred around the role played by Morris Dees as SPLC s co founder who won the case against the Klan which provided the family of the teenager Michael Donald lynched by the Klan in 1981 in Mobile Alabama with restitution from the Klan 218 219 Marc Thiessen in a June 2018 opinion piece for The Washington Post asserted that the SPLC had lost its credibility and become a caricature of itself 220 In the wake of Morris Dees dismissal in March 2019 former SPLC staffer Bob Moser published an article in The New Yorker The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center in which he described his disappointment with what the SPLC had become 20 Explanatory notes In his 2003 publication Chalmers warned that the Klan had given way to the next generation of hate groups Finkelman s Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties was republished in 2017 in London by Taylor and Francis ReferencesCitations a b c Financial Statements PDF Southern Poverty Law Center Inc October 31 2018 Retrieved March 26 2019 2012 Form 990 U S Federal Tax Return PDF Foundation Center Retrieved April 22 2014 Southern Poverty Law Center Inc Nonprofit Explorer ProPublica May 9 2013 Retrieved March 8 2021 With Justice For All The Times Picayune November 5 2006 Archived from the original on April 17 2008 a b c Shomade Salmon A 2006 Southern Poverty Law Center In Finkelman Paul ed Encyclopedia of American civil liberties A F Vol 1 New York Routledge pp 1500 1520 ISBN 978 0 415 94342 0 OCLC 819521815 a b 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Michelangelo August 22 2012 Dana Milbank Washington Post Writer Slams LGBT Activists SPLC For FRC s Hate Group Label HuffPost Gay Voices Retrieved March 28 2014 For commentary on the LGBT and FRC issues see Allen Charlotte April 15 2013 King of Fearmongers Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center scaring donors since 1971 Weekly Standard Retrieved March 28 2014 Milbank Dana August 6 2012 Hateful speech on hate groups The Washington Post Retrieved March 13 2014 Potok Mark December 15 2010 SPLC Responds to Attack by FRC Conservative Republicans SPLC Hatewatch Southern Poverty Law Center Retrieved May 6 2017 Hatewatch November 12 2015 The anti LGBT hate group Family Research Council FRCdc is running another DumpSPLC campaign Who is FRC Image with text The hate group designation is based on the Family Research Council s distortion of known facts to demonize gay men as child molesters and similar false claims and has nothing to do with FRC s support of natural marriage or its belief 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