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Southern Poverty Law Center

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Southern Poverty Law Center
Location
  • Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a United States nonprofit civil rights organization. It has had legal victories against white supremacist groups. It fights civil rights violations and lawsuits about the separation of church and state.

The SPLC keeps a list of hate groups in the United States. Hate groups persecute or attack entire groups of people because of those people's race, ethnicity, skin color, religion, or home country.

The SPLC was established around 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama.