The most fascinating sentence in Morris Dees' Wikipedia article is "His grandfather named his son "Morris Seligman" after a Jewish friend." The Southern Preposterous Lie Center was founded with another lawyer named Joseph J. Levin....
And switching to its article, "In 1986, the entire legal staff of the SPLC, excluding Dees, resigned, as the organization shifted from traditional civil rights work toward fighting right-wing extremism."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Dees
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center