Keeping the dream alive : the cases and causes of the Southern Poverty Law Center
(Book)

Includes index.

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.