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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is based in Montgomery, Alabama, in the South of the US. It was started in 1971 by Morris Dees and Joe Levin as a civil rights law firm. It is known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacist groups, its tracking of hate groups, and its sponsorship of the Maya Lin-designed Civil Rights Memorial. The Center publishes an in-depth analysis of political extremism and bias crimes in the United States in the quarterly Intelligence Report.
History
The first case the Center took on forced the local YMCA to racially integrate their athletic offerings. In 1979 the Center brought its first case against the Klu Klux Klan. This was the first of many cases against the Klan. In 1983, the Klan responded by burning down the Center's offices. Several other attempts to bomb the center and kill Morris Dees have been thwarted.