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7 p.m.

Pioneering civil rights attorney and founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Morris Dees will speak about his life and the work of the center. The son of an Alabama farmer, Dees achieved remarkable success as a lawyer and publisher in the 1960s. In 1967, Dees decided to change course in his life and devote himself to helping others. In his autobiography, A Season for Justice, he says, “I was ready to take that step, to speak out for my black friends who were still ‘disenfranchised’ even after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Little had changed in the South. Whites held the power and had no intention of voluntarily sharing it.”

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