Morris Dees

Morris Seligman Dees Jr. is an American attorney known as the co-founder and former chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), based in Montgomery, Alabama. He ran a direct marketing firm before founding SPLC. Along with his law partner, Joseph J. Levin Jr., Dees founded the SPLC in 1971. Dees and his colleagues at the SPLC have been "credited with devising innovative ways to cripple hate groups" such as the Ku Klux Klan, particularly by using "damage litigation".

16 December 1936

Born on the same birth day (16 December): Bill Brittain • Bill Hicks • Chiharu Matsuyama • Jon Tenney • Kim Chwa-chin • Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (gardener) • O. Winston Link • Pat Van Den Hauwe • Paul McGinley • Rafael Alberti • Ruben Nirvi • Seibo Kitamura • Simon Grayson • Éric Bélanger

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