Southern Poverty Law Center

Homosexuals and other members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community are discriminated against on a daily basis. Many people in this community even face institutionalized discrimination by the government. This deep-rooted problem has been neglected for quite some time, but lately many organizations have been fighting to rectify this issue. One of them is a non-profit called the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, who for several decades has been a stakeholder in litigating for the LGBT community’s civil rights. An organization that has similar ideals with the SPLC is Truth Wins Out, or TWO. In the recent past they have been fighting against cultural discrimination through educating the masses. While the SPLC and TWO use…

African Americans resisted lynchings in numerous ways including journalists encouraging public education. The NAACP and other organizations organized support groups and tried to get anti-lynching laws passed. Most blacks and poor whites were invalidated by new constitutions and electoral rules passed by legislators. During this time, lynchings were at their highest reflecting economic struggles. (Markovitz 2) African American women 's clubs raised funds to support public campaigns. Their…

The Psychology of Hate and Hate Crimes *In the United States today, we can see a huge cultural diversity. People come from all over the world in search of a better way of life and move to be in the land of the free. However, with such a huge cultural variety in America this leads to individuals having radical opinions of other races, religions, genders, and sexual orientations. How does an individual create this way of thinking? Are people born with prejudice? These are some of the questions…

King also said, “When we work to remedy one evil, we affect all evils.” To work against the Triple Evils, you must develop a nonviolent frame of mind as described in the “Six Principles of Nonviolence” Martin Luther King Jr. learned nonviolence movements through Gandhi and use the Kingian model for social action outlined in the “Six Steps for Nonviolent Social Change” (The King Center). The first of six nonviolent principles established by Dr. King was “Nonviolence is a way of life for…

Over eight hundred thousand undocumented immigrants are protected by a law called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which allows specific illegal immigrant children, under certain conditions, to temporarily stay in the United States by obtaining permission from the U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). There has been a lot of debate to end this program by March, 2018. Ending this program would result in more than 800,000 deportations. These people are in fear of…

(Gospel). Suddenly, Westboro was a church that did not conform to any religious denomination. Things went quiet until 1964 when Fred opened his law firm, Phelps Chartered. In 1979, he was disbarred from state courts because he had, “...little care…

The seminar that was led by Leica Books she talked about various topics that are tending but not spoke about. Miss. Books was send from a non-profit organization, “Southern Poverty Law Center” in Montgomery, Alabama. Being that Alabama is a predominantly white state, this organization was founded by two white men which is really good but ironic. In this seminar discussed New Jersey hate groups, Post- election hate and harassment incident and Threats to civil and human right across the nation.…

attachment and will to succeed due to the institution of slavery (Loewen). There are numerous other primary source documents issued by the governments of Southern states that very clearly communicate slavery as the chief reason for succession. That point cannot be underscored enough. The racially charged motivation for succession begs the question of whether or not the statues honor white supremacy by virtue of the statues memorializing Confederate personnel. In that regard, an exhaustive…

Stevenson’s work has helped many inmates, wrongfully accused or wrongly sentenced, and family of inmates and changed the way of thinking when it comes to racial and poverty divides into what should be the legal justice system. His work has inspired me and what I assume many others. But Stevenson didn’t get to inspire many or even help many without acquiring the educational means to do so. By taking the first step and taking courses such as; Race, Poverty and Criminal Justice, Race and Poverty…

brought diseases such as . The settlers hunted the Natives the same way they hunted large animals and were forced to leave their home lands. Its ironic to think that American law and American politics were never kind to the first Americans. Thirty years ago, all of these tribes were utterly destitute; they occupied arid desert land with no resources and no prospects that their grim…