Morris Dee
"Threats to America from the Radical Militia"
Tuesday, April 11, 2000 at 7 p.m.
Henry J. Freede Wellness and Activity Center
NW 27th Street and Florida Ave
 

 
Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center is the author of "Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat," "A Season for Justice" and "Hate on Trial: the Case Against America's Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi." In his lecture he will explore the dangers of the radical militia movement and the rise in hate crimes in America. Dees has won numerous honors including being named "Trial Lawyer of the Year" by the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice and receiving the National Education Association's Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Award for his work on behalf of hate crime victims.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has created the "Teaching Tolerance" education project to reach out to communities and encourage tolerance and understanding; sponsored the Civil Rights Memorial; and won an Academy Award for the documentary "A Time for Justice."

"A Time for Justice" and "Shadow of Hate" will be shown from 7:30-9 p.m. on Monday, April 10, and Wednesday, April 12 in the Meinders School of Business, Jones Auditorium, NW 23rd and Blackwelder on the OCU campus.

Free and open to the public
For more information call (405) 521-5094.

Coming September 11, 2000:
Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking
Sponsored by Oklahoma City University Students