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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
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