NCJ Number
122681
Journal
Trial Volume: 26 Issue: 4 Dated: (April 1990) Pages: 64-69
Date Published
1990
Length
6 pages
Annotation
In this reminiscence, Morris Dees, executive director of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, reflects on the lessons he has learned from his clients.
Abstract
Some of Mr. Dees's clients were poor blacks mistreated by the Alabama judicial system. Others were black and Vietnamese victims of Ku Klux Klan oppression and violence. Because of his legal work against Klan violence, Dees has been threatened with death by the Aryan Nation, a paramilitary group in Idaho. Dees reflects on the lessons in courage and forgiveness he has learned from his clients and points out that he can't separate the way he thinks about himself as a lawyer from his clients.