The Southern Poverty Law Center was organized by Dees and Levin in 1971 as a law firm to handle anti-discrimination cases in the United States. The organization's first president was Julian Bond, formerly of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Bond served as president of the SPLC until 1979. The first case the Center took on forced the local YMCA to racially integrate their athletic offerings. In 1979 the Center brought its first of its many cases against the Ku Klux Klan. In 1981 the Center began its "Klanwatch" project to monito ...

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Southern Poverty Law Center, Southern Poverty Law Center - History, Southern Poverty Law Center - Educational programs, Southern Poverty Law Center - Documentaries, Southern Poverty Law Center - Controversy, Southern Poverty Law Center - David Horowitz, Southern Poverty Law Center - Montgomery Advertiser investigation, Southern Poverty Law Center - Harper's Magazine investigation, Southern Poverty Law Center - Chronicles Magazine article, Southern Poverty Law Center - Groups listed as hate groups

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The SPLC's political initiatives include a project entitled "Teaching Tolerance" based at the website Tolerance.org. According to the SPLC the project is "an educational program to help K-12 teachers foster respect and understanding in the classroom." "Teaching Tolerance" is a multi-pronged program aimed at two different age groups of students with separate materials for teachers and parents. One portion of the project targets elementary school children, providing informational material on the history of the civil rights movement.[3] ...

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Southern Poverty Law Center, Southern Poverty Law Center - History, Southern Poverty Law Center - Educational programs, Southern Poverty Law Center - Documentaries, Southern Poverty Law Center - Controversy, Southern Poverty Law Center - David Horowitz, Southern Poverty Law Center - Montgomery Advertiser investigation, Southern Poverty Law Center - Harper's Magazine investigation, Southern Poverty Law Center - Chronicles Magazine article, Southern Poverty Law Center - Groups listed as hate groups

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Anti-Catholicism is opposition to the Roman Catholic Church or to Catholics, often employing mischaracterizations, stereotypes and negative prejudices. Its motivations are sometimes religious or political opposition. Occasionally it is little more than rank bigotry. Anti-Catholicism - Religious anti-Catholicism. On the Internet anti-Catholic sites are reportedly rampant. A check on the words "Catholicism is evil" yields some examples.[1] The Southern Poverty Law Center specifically cites groups like the New ...

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• Anti-Catholicism - Religious anti-Catholicism
• Anti-Catholicism - Historical anti-Catholicism
• Anti-Catholicism - Anti-Catholicism in modern times
• Anti-Catholicism - Contemporary anti-Catholicism
• Anti-Catholicism - Religious
• Anti-Catholicism - Secular
• Anti-Catholicism - Abuse of the term
• Anti-Catholicism - Actions frequently labeled anti-Catholic
• Anti-Catholicism - Additional reading

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Ludwig von Mises Institute - Southern Poverty Law Center. The historical views of the Institute and of several people affiliated with it have been interpreted by some critics, such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, as sympathetic to the Confederacy. Because a Confederate victory would have preserved or at least substantially prolonged the slave status of African-Americans, SPLC has criticized the Institute for its "interest in neo-Confederate themes", which SPLC considers to be a form of racism. SPLC has also criticized the Institute fo ...

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Ludwig von Mises Institute, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Background, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Mission and activities, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Historical views, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Criticisms, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Southern Poverty Law Center, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Claremont Institute, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Faculty and administration

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The Mises Institute's stated goal is to undermine statism in all its forms. Its methodology is based on praxeology, a description of individual human action which seeks to avoid errors in scientific behavioral observation that could be induced by human self-consciousness and complexity. The institute's economic theories depict any government intervention as destructive, whether through welfare, inflation, taxation, regulation, or war. LvMI disparag ...

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Ludwig von Mises Institute, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Background, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Mission and activities, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Historical views, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Criticisms, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Southern Poverty Law Center, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Claremont Institute, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Faculty and administration

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The Ludwig von Mises Institute was established in 1982 under the direction of Margit von Mises, widow of Ludwig von Mises, who chaired its board until her death in 1993. The founder and current president is Llewellyn Rockwell Jr. Murray Rothbard was a major influence on the institute's activities and served as its vice president until his death in 1995.[1] Politics series Factions Minarchism Anarcho-capitalism Paleolibertarianism Neolibertarianism Left-libertarianism Influences Austrian School Classical liberalism Individual ...

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Ludwig von Mises Institute, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Background, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Mission and activities, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Historical views, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Criticisms, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Southern Poverty Law Center, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Claremont Institute, Ludwig von Mises Institute - Faculty and administration

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MacDonald was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. His father was a policeman, his mother a secretary. He went to Roman Catholic schools and played basketball in high school. He entered the University of Wisconsin and became a radical activist in the anti-war movement from about 1965 to 1975. During this period, he perceived the East Coast Jewish origins of the majority of the movement there (C of C, p 104), which served to spark an interest in Jewish intellectual movement ...

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Kevin B. MacDonald, Kevin B. MacDonald - Early years, Kevin B. MacDonald - Professional background, Kevin B. MacDonald - Academic works addressing Judaism as a Collective Evolutionary Strategy, Kevin B. MacDonald - Jewish role in facilitating mass immigration, Kevin B. MacDonald - Race culture and intelligence, Kevin B. MacDonald - MacDonald on Neoconservatism, Kevin B. MacDonald - Relations with other academics and the public, Kevin B. MacDonald - Accusations of poor scholarship to promote anti-Semitism, Kevin B. MacDonald - MacDonald and David Irving, Kevin B. MacDonald - Southern Poverty Law Center, Kevin B. MacDonald - Books and monographs

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MacDonald is best known for his trilogy that claims to analyze Judaism and Jewish culture from the perspective of Evolutionary Psychology, comprising A People That Shall Dwell Alone (1994), Separation and Its Discontents (1998), and The Culture of Critique (1998). He proposes that Judaism is a group evolutionary strategy to enhance the ability of Jews to out-compete non-Jews for resources. Using the term ...

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Kevin B. MacDonald, Kevin B. MacDonald - Early years, Kevin B. MacDonald - Professional background, Kevin B. MacDonald - Academic works addressing Judaism as a Collective Evolutionary Strategy, Kevin B. MacDonald - Jewish role in facilitating mass immigration, Kevin B. MacDonald - Race culture and intelligence, Kevin B. MacDonald - MacDonald on Neoconservatism, Kevin B. MacDonald - Relations with other academics and the public, Kevin B. MacDonald - Accusations of poor scholarship to promote anti-Semitism, Kevin B. MacDonald - MacDonald and David Irving, Kevin B. MacDonald - Southern Poverty Law Center, Kevin B. MacDonald - Books and monographs

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Kevin B. MacDonald - Accusations of poor scholarship to promote anti-Semitism. Academic Jaff Schatz has accused MacDonald of misrepresenting and misusing his work [11]. David Lieberman, who has a PhD in musicology from Brandeis University, has published a paper alleging that MacDonald has distorted evidence and chosen evidence selectively for rhetorical purposes [12]. Academic John Tooby, the president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society and a professor of anthropology at the University of Californ ...

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Kevin B. MacDonald, Kevin B. MacDonald - Early years, Kevin B. MacDonald - Professional background, Kevin B. MacDonald - Academic works addressing Judaism as a Collective Evolutionary Strategy, Kevin B. MacDonald - Jewish role in facilitating mass immigration, Kevin B. MacDonald - Race culture and intelligence, Kevin B. MacDonald - MacDonald on Neoconservatism, Kevin B. MacDonald - Relations with other academics and the public, Kevin B. MacDonald - Accusations of poor scholarship to promote anti-Semitism, Kevin B. MacDonald - MacDonald and David Irving, Kevin B. MacDonald - Southern Poverty Law Center, Kevin B. MacDonald - Books and monographs

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In 1987, the Nationalist Movement won a lawsuit in which the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged that it had violated the Civil Rights Act. That same year, the Movement was denied non-profit status due to its activist nature, although it was later granted this status in 1994 [3]. Since then, it has conducted high-profile activism, such as its protest against Martin Luther King Day in Atlanta, Georgia in 1989, which drew the largest call-up of National Guard in peacetime to quell rioting against it; its Neighborhood, Home, Family and Count ...

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Nationalist Movement, Nationalist Movement - Forsyth County Covenant, Nationalist Movement - Lawsuits, Nationalist Movement - All The Way, Nationalist Movement - Present Day Nationalist Movement

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The "Rebel Flag" of the Confederacy has become a highly contentious image throughout the USA. Although it and other reminders of the Old South can be found on automobile bumper stickers, on tee shirts, and flown from homes, restrictions (notably on public buildings) have been imposed as a result of activism and boycotts. Groups including the League of the South continue to promote secession from the United States, citing a desire to protect and defend the heritage of the South. On the other side of this issue are groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center (SP ...

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Southern United States, Southern United States - Geography, Southern United States - Major metropolitan areas, Southern United States - History, Southern United States - Politics, Southern United States - Presidential history, Southern United States - Other politicians and political movements, Southern United States - Culture, Southern United States - Religion, Southern United States - Southern Dialect, Southern United States - Cuisine, Southern United States - Literature, Southern United States - Music, Southern United States - Sports, Southern United States - Film, Southern United States - Cultural Variations, Southern United States - Race relations, Southern United States - Symbolism of the South, Southern United States - Today's South: The New South, Southern United States - GDP

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MacDonald is the author of seven books on evolutionary psychology and child development and is the author or editor of over thirty academic articles in refereed journals. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1966, and M.S. in biology from the University of Connecticut in 1976. He earned a Ph.D. in 1981 (Biobehavioral Sciences) from the University of Connecticut where he studied under Professor Benson E. Ginsburg, one of the founders and leaders of modern behavior genetics, as his advisor. His thesis was on the behavioral ...

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Kevin B. MacDonald, Kevin B. MacDonald - Early years, Kevin B. MacDonald - Professional background, Kevin B. MacDonald - Academic works addressing Judaism as a Collective Evolutionary Strategy, Kevin B. MacDonald - Jewish role in facilitating mass immigration, Kevin B. MacDonald - Race culture and intelligence, Kevin B. MacDonald - MacDonald on Neoconservatism, Kevin B. MacDonald - Relations with other academics and the public, Kevin B. MacDonald - Accusations of poor scholarship to promote anti-Semitism, Kevin B. MacDonald - MacDonald and David Irving, Kevin B. MacDonald - Southern Poverty Law Center, Kevin B. MacDonald - Books and monographs

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The "Rebel Flag" of the Confederacy has become a highly contentious image throughout the USA. Although it and other reminders of the Old South can be found on automobile bumper stickers, on tee shirts, and flown from homes, restrictions (notably on public buildings) have been imposed as a result of activism and boycotts. Groups including the League of the South continue to promote secession from the United States, citing a desire to protect and defend the heritage of the South. On the other side of this issue are groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center (SP ...

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Southern United States, Southern United States - History, Southern United States - Geography, Southern United States - Politics, Southern United States - Presidential history, Southern United States - Other politicians and political movements, Southern United States - Culture, Southern United States - Religion, Southern United States - Southern Dialect, Southern United States - Cuisine, Southern United States - Literature, Southern United States - Music, Southern United States - Sports, Southern United States - Film, Southern United States - Cultural Variations, Southern United States - Race relations, Southern United States - Symbolism of the South, Southern United States - Today's South: The New South, Southern United States - Major metropolitan areas, Southern United States - GDP

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On the Internet anti-Catholic sites are reportedly rampant. A check on the words "Catholicism is evil" yields some examples.[1] The Southern Poverty Law Center specifically cites groups like the New Black Panthers, as an anti-Catholic group with an Internet presence. Other groups deemed to be Anti-Catholic who have an online presence include "Reaching Catholics for Christ"[2], "Good News For Catholics"[3], and Chick Publications. Further, when a Christian humor site called "Ship of Fools" recently asked for offensive religious jokes as a reb ...

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Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Catholicism - Religious anti-Catholicism, Anti-Catholicism - Historical anti-Catholicism, Anti-Catholicism - Anti-Catholicism in modern times, Anti-Catholicism - Contemporary anti-Catholicism, Anti-Catholicism - Religious, Anti-Catholicism - Secular, Anti-Catholicism - Abuse of the term, Anti-Catholicism - Actions frequently labeled anti-Catholic, Anti-Catholicism - Additional reading

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Before the death of Pierce, the SPLC and the FBI called the Alliance the best-financed and best-organized white nationalist organization of its kind in the United States. Membership in 2002 was estimated at 1,500 with an income of $1 million annually. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, paid membership has declined to fewer than 800 as of 2003.[2] The 2005 revolt again weakened the organization. In 2002, the organization had a paid staff of 17 and ran a White Power record label called Resistance Records. It also has a radio ...

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National Alliance, National Alliance - History, National Alliance - Politics, National Alliance - Anti-Semitism, National Alliance - Business, National Alliance - Books

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Critics often criticize Sailer's work as racist.[13] The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil-rights advocacy group, argues the science of human nature that Sailer and the HBI deal with have negative effects for minority population segments, and imply such study isn't scientifically legitimate.[14] VDARE has been controversial for its immigration reduction stance. Sailer argues the racism criticism isn't a factual or logical refutation of his argum ...

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Steve Sailer, Steve Sailer - General standpoints, Steve Sailer - Hurricane Katrina and racial demographics data, Steve Sailer - Controversy and criticism, Steve Sailer - Selected bibliography, Steve Sailer - Prominent articles, Steve Sailer - Other articles, Steve Sailer - Quotes, Steve Sailer - Notes

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On Tuesday 30 October 2001, the ACLU of Alabama, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and Southern Poverty Law Center were among groups which filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, asking that the monument be removed because it "sends a message to all who enter the State Judicial Building that the government encourages and endorses the practice of religion in general and Judeo-Christianity in particular." Evidence included testimony that lawyers of different religious beliefs had changed thei ...

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Roy Moore, Roy Moore - Pre-judicial career, Roy Moore - Judicial career, Roy Moore - Federal suit, Roy Moore - Judgement and appeal, Roy Moore - Aftermath, Roy Moore - Candidacy for Governor

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Dees' tactics and legal actions against hate groups have made him a target of criticism from many of these organizations. He has allegedly received numerous death threats from these groups, and a number of hate web sites make strong accusations against him and the Southern Poverty Law Center. At one time there existed a web site dedicated to gathering "dirt" on Dees, entitled "Deeswatch," though it is apparently now defunct. While the actions of the SPLC against racist and hate groups have won considerable praise and accolades for Dee ...

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Morris Dees, Morris Dees - Biography, Morris Dees - Criticism, Morris Dees - Newspaper investigations of the SPLC, Morris Dees - Critics on the left, Morris Dees - Jubilee Newspaper article, Morris Dees - Published books

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In 2003, liberal activist Chip Berlet wrote an article for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) entitled "Into the Mainstream", which named Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPC) as one of an "array of right-wing foundations and think tanks support[ing] efforts to make bigoted and discredited ideas respectable," for passages pertaining to Horowitz's writings against slavery reparations and affirmative action. [10] In an open letter to SPLC president Morris Dees, Horowitz urged Dees to remove the article from the SPLC web ...

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David Horowitz, David Horowitz - Life and career, David Horowitz - Work in Race-Relations, David Horowitz - Academic Bill of Rights, David Horowitz - Projects, David Horowitz - Regarding Peter Jennings' death, David Horowitz - Criticism, David Horowitz - Books, David Horowitz - Quotations

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