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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Southern Law Poverty Center
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 03:58:37 GMT
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- By email I was sent the attached information about the
- Southern Law Poverty Center. I'm not clear in my mind
- whether the sender is a muffin, so I post this for an
- anonymous person (contrary to my usual habit of not doing
- that), because the matter is of potentially great interest
- to LGB activists.
-
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- The Southern Poverty Law Center
- 400 Washington Avenue
- Montgomery, AL 36104
-
- Their projects include "Klanwatch" and "Teaching Tolerance."
- Some examples of their work:
-
- In 1987, a Klanwatch civil suit against the United Klans of
- America ended in a $7 million award to the mother of Michael
- Donald, a black man who was killed by Klansmen in Mobile,
- Alabama in 1981. The Klansmen had lynched his body after
- killing him.
-
- In 1990 the SPLC won a $12.5 million judgment against Tom
- Metzger and his group, White Aryan Resistance (WAR) for the
- beating death in 1988 of Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian man,
- in Portland.
-
- "Teaching Tolerance" sends a free magazine to teachers,
- twice a year. They aim to reduce prejudice through
- education and dialogue. The latest issue, Fall '92,
- includes a very interesting three-page article about
- "Project 10 East," a student-faculty lesbigay support group
- at Cambridge (Mass.) Rindge and Latin School. The CRLS is
- "the only public high school in an economically, racially
- and culturally diverse city . . . there was some initial
- resisitance . . . [but] Project 10 East held fast to its
- mission . . . and has become an accepted part of the
- school community . . . [they] celebrated National Coming
- out Day [1991] with displays, classroom materials, and
- hundreds of pink triangles . . . The triangles were worn
- by supportive teachers and students as well as a majority of
- school administrators -- including the headmaster, a former
- marine.
-
- The SPLC sounds like it deserves my support. I have only
- their own publications, however -- does anyone have
- independent information about them?
-
-
- --
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