In text and photographs, describes the history of the crusading lawsuits and causes of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization founded in Montgomery, Alabama, by lawyers Morris Dees and Joe Levin. Includes accounts of the organization's founding in the wake of the civil rights movement; its many legal battles against the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups; its lawsuits on behalf of minorities, prisoners, children, women, the disabled, immigrants and other vulnerable members of society; its anti-bias education efforts; and its construction and operation of the Civil Rights Memorial
Includes index
Beginnings -- Burying Jim Crow -- Fighting hate groups -- Fighting for society's most vulnerable -- "Until justice rolls down like waters..." -- Remembering the martyrs
