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Southern Poverty Law Center fires co-founder

Published March 14, 2019 10:42pm EDT

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ATLANTA (FOX 5 Atlanta) - The Southern Poverty Law Center has fired its co-founder Morris Dees.

Dees gained notoriety in 1981 after winning a lawsuit that bankrupted a leading Ku Klux Klan group.

The nonprofit civil rights organization declined to elaborate, saying only that Dees failed to live up to the center's standards and values.