The Southern Poverty Law Center has fired Morris Dees, the civil rights organization's co-founder and former chief litigator.

Dees, 82, co-founded the Montgomery-based organization in 1971.

https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2019/03/14/southern-poverty-law-center-fires-co-founder-civil-rights-lawyer-morris-dees/3164839002/