Southern Poverty Law Center founders speaks in Colorado Springs

us not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream,” said Morris Dees, founder and director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, speaking in Colorado Springs recently. More than 500 people attended the evening program, “With Justice for All: In a Changing America,” with featured speaker, Dees. The event was organized by the Greenberg Center for Learning and Tolerance, a Colorado Springs-based non-profit organization. In 1971, attorneys Morris Dees and Joseph Levin, Jr. founded the center to ensure that the goals and promises of the civil rights movement would be available to all. In front of a large backdrop of the US flag, Dees recounted the history of one of the most difficult cases handled by the SPLC during […]