Yep, SPLC founder, lawyer Morris Dees is a real peach. He started his career defending the Ku Klux Klan. But that's common knowledge. These may not be though.
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2014-our FBI 'delisted' them as a resource.
 http://thefederalist.com/2017/05/17/12-ways-southern-poverty-law-center-scam-profit-hate-mongering/
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[...]"I think people associate the SPLC with going to court. And that's why they get the money. And they don't go to court"-former SPLC legal fellow Pamela Summers
https://www.henrymakow.com/2016/08/morris-dees-liberal-champion.html
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[...]Dees served in 1958 as state campaign manager for segregationist attorney general candidate McDonald Gallion-also worked for George C. Wallace- 
https://www.henrymakow.com/2016/08/morris-dees-liberal-champion.html
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-1961, Black Freedom Riders were beaten by a white mob, Dees defended the white KKK mob- "... legal fee was paid by the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizen's Council..."
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/MorrisDeesFactSheet.pdf