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• Tools of hate used by the marchers who were attacked erhood and better race rela Invisible Empire, Knights of by a Klan-led mob in Forsyth tions," said SPLC President the Ku Klux Klan will now County, Ga., in January 1987. Morris Dees. help further the interests of The inventory included a com people the white suprema puter, typewriters, a copying Death of an Empire cists sought to oppress. machine, air conditioners, The settlement approved in The North Carolina-based desks, chairs and other sup- May by an Atlanta federal hate group turned over its . plies. court marked the end of a office equipment to the Wake "It's ironically fitting that long legal struggle and the County chapter of the ~AACP equipment and supplies used death of the Invisible Empire, on Sept. 3 as part 0 a settle y the largest an group in the country's largesL and mo t ment of a lawsuit filed by the the country to foster intoler violent Klan group. The Klan Southern Poverty Law Center ance and create disharmony group was forced under the on behalf of civil rights will now help promote broth- settlement to disband its net work of chapters in 20 states Infront cfa statue ofMartin Luther KingJr. in Raleigh, N. c., Invisible from Maine to California, give Empire assets are turned over to the Wake County c1uJpter ofthe NAACP. up all its assets and pay the From left: SPLC President Morris Dees; Georgia State Rep. Billy McKin civil rightS marchers $37,500. ney; Rev. H.B. Pickett, NAACP; and SPLC local counselfim Fuller. (continued on page 6) Klanstnan's Deathbed Confession Leads to FBI Investigation The Shadow of Hate Teaching Kit • At the request of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the FBI is conducting an investigation to in Production determine if its agents knew that one of their informants was involved in the killing of a black man 36 years ago. • Production of the sec is heading the project. "'We Ex-Klansman Henry Alexander made a deathbed ond Teaching Tolerance overcame them, but these confession to his wife last December that he and at video--and-text kit, entitled challenges rocur. In a free least three other men forced Willie Edwards Jr. to The Shadow of Hate, is society, where there are jump to his death from an Alabama River bridge underway. The film, text multiple religions, ways of on Jan. 23, 1957. Alexander also told his wife that book and teacher's guide life, values and traditions, he had been a paid FBI informant. that comprise this package there is a constant struggle SPLC President Morris Dees, who represents will examine the varied to remain a- tolerant whole. Edwards' family, asked the FBI in August to pro forms that intolerance has We need to come to terms duce Alexander's government records. taken throughout U.S. his with this responsibility if "The family wants to know what the FBI knew tory. our ideals ¥e to survive." WiUie Edwards about him, and if he was working for the govern- "There were times in Guggenheim's assistants ment at the time of the murder," Dees said. "If the our history that we now have completed the re records show that FBI agents wex:e negligent in handling Alexander as an informant or consider almost unthink search phase and are cur that they had prior knowledge of his propensity for violence and continued to employ able," says AcademyAward rently conducting inter his services, the Edwards family will consider bringing legal action against the United winning film producer views around the country States to compensate them for Willie Edwards' death." Charles Guggenheim, who (continued on p4ge 5) (continued on page 6) " PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER MAILBOX Klanwatch to Offer
For once I am delighted to Without an effort to under have been on someone's stand other people, as well as Two Special Reports mailing list! I have long been to constructively communi an admirer of the work done cate, there is no society. by the SPLC. My contribu - L. and P.Judge tions are so small as to be Torrance, Calif. in Spring 1994 almost symbolic, but my heart is happy about supporting Thank you for telling me what I feel to be the signifi about the eight Los Angeles • The Klanwatch project of the SPLC will citizens when hate crimes occur. cant issue of our time. Every Skinheads affiliated with the publish two Special Reports in the spring of Breaking the Chains of the Hate Movement time I mail a check I will be white supremacist Church of 1994. will focus on the conversion of racists: what reminded and encouraged to the Creator who were arrest Combating Hate: A Police/Community makes dedicated white supremacists decide do whatever I can in my local ed for plotting to start a race Response Guide will be printed in two ver to renounce their beliefs, the problems community. war. It is discouraging to have sions, one for law enforcement officials and reformed racists then face from their former -So OlurchiU a case like this come up when one for community leaders. The first ver allies in the hate movement, and some sug Hillsbqro, Ore. the Center's funds are need sion will provide suggestions for law officers gestions on encouraging white supremacists· ed for the Teaching Toler on how to prepare for and respond to hate to give up their hateful doctrines. Having lived in the Los ance project. I am going to rallies or marches in their area as well as The reports, S{;heduled for publication Angeles area our entire lives, add a little to my pledge, as I strategies for dealing with hate crimes. The this spring, will be sent to any law enforce it has become very apparent can, from time to time. secoryl version will give tips on what com ment officials, community groups, human to both of us that what affects -E. Hunt munities can do to counteract white relations commissions and individuals who others in our city eventually S. Yannouth, Mass. supremacists' hate-filled rhetoric and unify request them. affects all of us [and] the country as a whole. Teaching Keep up the good work. I tolerance of others who are want to see more convictions 'different' from 'us' is vital to against the Klan and other the cohesion of our society. white suproemacist groups. Your center seems to be one of tf.1e few to achieve tangible results in the fight against racism, which is why you are receiving my contribution. -J. Lyndr. SPLC Boulder, Colo. REPORT Thank you for sending us the video. It is a summation
VOL. 24 No. 1 JANUARY 1994 of our knowledge of the out spoken and veiled hatred and SPiC Report Editor bigotry we have been aware Elsie Williams of all our lives. That there is a Southern Poverty dedicated organization such Law Center as the SPLC working to com Chairman of the Board bat this intolerable scourge is Joseph J. -levin, Jr. almost unbelievable. Directors of the Board - J.L.H. andJ.G.H. Patricia Clark Francis M. Green Hope, Ark. Judge Rufus Huffman Howard Mandell Jack Watson Thank you so much for President your outstanding work in the Darrow~ Morris Dees field of human relations and by Clarence 1 Executive Director your continuing efforts to found this book to be Edward Ashworth enact social change. I have one of the greatest Legal Director just received my first issue of books I have read! ... J. Richard Cohen Teaching Tolerance, and it cer- I se eople being Mail Operations Director tainly has given me good Mamie Jackson . ideas and has encouraged me njustly Planned Giving Director to feel supported for some of to stop Amelia Montjoy my own work with my school but I c ~t wait for the Fundraising Director district. It helps to know that day when I can fight it David Watson others share the desire to try in a courtroom. I hope K1anwakh Director for a kinder world. Danny Welch that one day I will be -E. Picard able-to visit the South* Teaching Tolerance Beachwood, Ohio Director ern Poverty Law Cen Sara Bullard ter in Alabama. And I know one day Creative Director We welcome letters from all Paul F. Newman Southern Poverty Law Center for sure I will be fighting racial injus Administrator & supporters. Send your comments tice in America. Secretary/Treasurer and suggestions to: JoAnn Chancellor SPLC Mailbox Sincerely, The SPLC Report is published by Makis Antzoulatos the Southern Poverty Law Center 400 Washington Ave. 400 Washington Ave. Montgomery, AL 36104 Montgomery, AL 36104
PAGE 2 SPLC REPORT • JANUARY 1994 Ex-Klansman Pleads Judicial Elections Guilty to Sending Death Unfair in Alabama, Threat to Morris Dees Cohen Argues
• On November 1, Center involved in- voting rights liti black voters. At the time the Legal Director Richard gation. In one of the first suit was filed, only one mem Cohen argued a voting rights cases of its kind, the Center ber of the state legislature case that is likely to have a far was black. Today, there are reaching impact on the 24 black members. The Cen Alabamajudiciary. ter hopes the Alabama judi The case concerns the ciary case will have a similar method of electing Alabama impact. Alabama Boyd (second from right in Klan robe) led an anti-Dees march in trial courtjudges. Appearing "Historically, Alabama front ofthe SPLC in 1991. on behalf of the Southern is 25 percent judges have been hostile to It included a crude drawing Christian Leadership Con black litigants,"• said the Rev. • Ex-Klansman Gregory ference - the group found black, yet only John Nettles', the President Shaun Boyd, of Rome, Ga., of a man with a bullet hole ed by Dr. Martin Luther of the Alabama branch of pleaded guilty Oct. 22 to in his head and the caption, King Jr. - Cohen argued four of124 the Southern Christian charges he threatened the "The GoodJew." that the current system of Leadership Conference. life of SPLC President Mor In March 1991, Boyd was "at-large" elections denies circuit judges "Although much has ris Dees. Sentencing is set among about 200 white black voters an equal oppor bl~ck. changed since the 1960s, it is forJan. 21. supremacists who marched tunity to elect candidates of are crucial that the bench reflect Boyd, once a member of against Dees and the SPLC in their choice. the diversity of the state's the Invisible Empire, Knights Montgomery. During the The statistics tell the story: population. Whenever any of the Ku Klux Klan in Geor march, Boyd and other robed in a state that is 25 percent group is excluded, the gia, was indicted May 25 by a Klansmen carried a large ban black, only four of 124 cir integrity of the system ofjus federal grand jury for mail ner with the words, "M:orris cuitjudges are black. filed suit in the early 1970s tice suffers." ing the death threat to Dees Dees - Enemy of the Peo to force the Alabama legisla The court is expected to in September 1992. pie." At a rally following the Equal Voting Rights ture to adopt an election rule on the case in the next The letter read, "Back off march, Klan leaders launched The Center has long been plan that would be fair to few months. Dees, or else Bang, you're _I" bitter verbal attacks at Dees. Terrorists Target Sacramento Minorities in Bombings, Threats
• An alarming series of bias tipped police. Law officers The 10-week onslaught also television station in October Sacramento follow a wave of motivated bombings and w~o searched the suspect's saw ·an attempt to throw a claimed responsibility fo~ the terrorist violence on the threats rocked Sacramento, home discovered materials Molotov cocktail through a firebombings of the organiza west coast in July. Bombings Calif., from July through . allegedly used in the fire window of a Jewish syna tions in the name of an in Seattle and Tacoma, October 1993, putting the bombings. gogue and several tele obscure white supremacist Wash., occurred just days city's minority communities The Sacramento violence phoned bomb threats to the group - the Aryan Libera after the FBI uncovered a on edge. included the firebombings of city's lesbian and gay com tion Front. No information white supremacist plot by Richard Campos, 17, was the NAACP headquarters, munity center. A rash of ran existed in law enforcement neo-Nazi Skinheads to start a arrested Nov. 6 in connec the Japanese American Citi dom pipe bombings in or Klanwatch files about the race war in Los Angeles. Sus tion with a series of fire zens League, an Asian Ameri mid-October targeted a group, causing speculation pects with white supremacist bombings after a store clerk can city councilman's home, sleeping black transient, a about the caller's legitimacy. affiliations were charged in reportedly observed him and the offices of the Califor business, a car, a park bath connection with the Wash making copies of white nia Department of Fair room, and a home. West Coast Violence ington bombings and the supremacist literature and Employment and Housing. A caller.to a Sacramento The disturbing events in California plot.
Visitors from South Asia
• In September, the Center hosted a group of South Asians visiting the U.s. as part of thenS. Information Agency's Tolerance anO;,PluraIism .osium.T nine visit@f~!>¥ere educatbrs, public 6mcials and at;orl,;leys fro dia,Nep Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan who were eager to'learn about the U.S. demo cratic process,.multicultural education, and human rights efforts. In the photo at left, Elsie Williams (at center), SPLC Repurt editor, explains the Civil Rights Memo-< rial to partof the group.
PAGE 3 SPLC REPORT • JANUARY 1994 Center Welcomes Paul F. Newman as Creative Director
• Mter working on Center projects tlsmg, national publication and most of the printed creative output for several months as a freelance. direct mail design, and as a free of the Center, including the SPLC designer, Paul F. Newmanjoined the lance art director and fine' artist. He Report, Klanwatch Intelligence &port staff in July as Creative Director for has taught art and graphic design and the Center's legal, advertising Southern Poverty Law Center publi classes in post-secondary correction and fundraising materials. He will' cations. al education as well as at the univer also design Teaching Tolerance maga A native of Oklahoma and a resi Sity level. Paul has a special interest zine. Former Teaching Tolerance dent of the Deep South for 22 years, in the con temporary art of the Design Director Susan Hulme/ Paul received his B.A. degree in art South and is an accomplished thor Wright has taken a full-time posi from Auburn University in Aubur'n, oughbred horseman. tion near her family home in Newman Ala. For 12 years he worked in adver- Paul will supervise the design .of Nashville, Tenn. Legal Interns Provide Invaluable Attorney Service to SPLC in 1993 Chosen for • Last summer and fall, Law Center about the crimi Center litigation. After three interns provided nal justice system has made graduation next May, John invaluable assistance in the me more determined than plans to clerk for a Texas Legal Department. ever to devote my legal Supreme Courtjustice. One-Year Monique Moyse is in her career to helping those Jessica Christensen, a final year at George Wash without power or influ senior at Hampshire Col ington University Law ence." lege in Amherst, Mass., School in Washington, D.C. John Adcock came to the began an SPLC internship Fellowship She hopes to practice crimi Center from the University last fall. Jessica's under nal defense or civil rights of Texas School of Law, graduate work has focused law upon graduation and is where he is a third-year stu currently participating in an dent and writes for the Law Review. A Certified Public Accountant with a master's degree in business adminis tration, John decided to pursue a career in civil rights law because of his admiration for the people
Christensen
Moyse on legal theory, the Ameri can legal system and the indigent criminal defense varied forms of discrimina program sponsored by the tion. District of Columbia munic Mter she leaves the Cen ipal courts. ter in early 1994, Jessica will One of the cases Monique conduct a study for her Wtemer worked on during her stay Adcock senior thesis on the rise in was the sexual harassment hate crimes and the useful • Attorney Ellen Wiesnerjoined the Southern Poverty and discrimination suit who fight against prejudice ness of hate crime legisla Law Center Legal Department in September as an against the Houston County and poverty. tion. SPLC Fellow. Ellen graduated from the University of (Ala.) Sheriffs Department. During his internship, The Center always bene Wisconsin Law School in 1992 and spent a year as a As Monique noted at the John worked on the appeal fits from the commitment, clerk with the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. She was end of her internship, "The of the Alabama judicial enthusiasm and hard work selected for the one-year fellowship from a pool of exposure I gained at the election case and other ofits legal interns. highly qualified applicants partly because of her com mitment to equal rights and a strong interest in the work of the Center. Ellen is working on most of the cases the Center is •\ \'oilld yOIl /i/;f 10 hflj) Ihf SOlllhf)'JI j)01 I f)'Iy IJIZl! CfJl litigating, including a capital murder case recently I(»)' (OJlliJlllf ils 11({III({ble WO)'/\ iJllo Ihf Jlexl (fJlllI)'Y? }rJlI assigned to the SPLC. Her background as a registered (({JI.' /Jf(Ol/lf ({ "P({)'IJlf)'j;))' Ihf FIIIIIJ'(). ",,'[({il Ih()j())'1/l OJI nurse for six years in the trauma centers of two Wis consin hospitals awakened her commitment to helping jJ({P;f 8 ({Jld Wf will SfJld yOIl Ihf I({IfsI iJlj())'JJ/({IiOJl OJl people and led her to pursue a career in civil rights lit igation. "We, as advocates, are obligated to continually jJ!rlJlJlnlg,'i1'iJIg ojJj}())'III JI i I i()s ... fight for the even-handed application of the law to all individuals," Ellen affrrms.
PAGE 4 SPLC REPORT • JANUARY 1994 The Shadow ofHate Teaching Kit inProduction
lost October,Jim Carnes (r), Teaching Tolerance research associate, visited the Washington, D.C., offices of Guggenheim Productions. Carnes is working withfilm producer Owrles Guggenheim (c) and his associateJennifer Gruber (1) on The-Shadow ofHate video-and-text kiL
(continued from page 1) rary episodes of bigotry and hate and their potential consequences. Teaching Tolerance with the "witnesses" whose voices will pro Teaching Tolerance research associate vide the film's principal soundtrack. These Jim Carnes will use a similar approach in Magazine Wins Award, individuals include survivors of contempo preparing the accompanying textbook. rary hate violence, descendants of historical "This is a huge topic to tackle in one 40 Reader Accolades victims, and scholars and other commenta minute video and one 100-page book," tors on both current and past events. The Carnes observes. "Our goal isn't to be visual content of the film will draw from an exhaustive but to trace themes. A thematic • The premier issue of Teaching Tolerance magazine, extraordinary body of documents, pho rather than chronological treatment allows designed by Susan Hulme/Wright, recently received a Cer tographs, newsreels and video footage that events widely separated in time and place to tificate of Design Excellence from one of the most presti associate produ;cer Jennifer Gruber has illuminate each other." gious design competitions in the country. Print magazine, assembled from local, regional and 'national A teachers guide will offer detailed les widely regarded as America's definitive graphic design mag archives and private collections. son plans and activities to complem~tthe azine, recognized the Spring '92 issue of Teaching Tolerance In addition to such well-known occur film and text. The Shadow of Hate will be as one of the country's best-designed publications. In 1992 rences as slavery, the subjugation of Native appropriate for use in grades 6 and up, the magazine received a Distinguished Achievement Award Americans, and the internment ofJapanese and is expected to be ready for distribu from the Educational Press Association, Americans durin World W: , the' 'U tion 0 chools in the faU of 1994. The pr-o also treat "forgotten" examples, including ject's first curriculum kit, America's Civil Teachers Respond to Survey the expulsion of Mormons, the Chinese Rights Movement, has won six national and Teaching Tolerance continues to draw high interest from Exclusion Act of 1877 and the anti-Semitism international awards and has been sent to teachers, After the Fall '93 issue was mailed, requests for free of Henry Ford. The hist
Readers were also invited to make suggestions about the magazine. Comments included: • This is the best aU-around social studies magazine I have used in 18 year;s ofteaching. I share it with my department as weU as my neighbors in the English department. Terrific! • Teaching Tolerance is definitely a magazine I want as a resource! The multicultural issues addressed are relevant and activi ties are effective - believe me, I've tried them! • Your magazine is a terrific tool in a fractured wfYTld. I teach in a 95 % white, rural community, and each issue helps us to reach out to a wider world. • Your whole magazine is great! Every article is helpful and/fYT ofinterest to me and the 3-4 teachers I share it with. It also helps us in our community wfYTk. • It:S- great. I read it cover to cover the week it arrives. It:S- nice rwt to On August 20,1993, Mr. Proctor Houston (right), Executive Vice President ofJosten's Learning feel alone in ourdaily strugglefor the lives and dignities ofourchildren. Corporation, presented a checkfor $30, OOQ to SPLC President Morris Dees for the Center's Teaching Tolerance project. Josten's, headquartered in San Diego, Calif, is the nation's leading producer of Although this was an informal survey, the preliminary educational software. The grant will help fund the production ofThe Shadow of Hate, a video- PAGE 5 SPLC REPORT • JANUARY 1994 Klansman's Deathbed Confession Leads to FBI Investigation (continued from page 1) Alexander was their "number one informant" on the Klan. When Bill Baxley became Alabama attorney gen Baxley said the agents asked that the Klansman eral in the 1970s, he began aggressively pursuing be "given consideration." Until Alexander's many of the unsolved racial slayings that occurred deathbed confession, Baxley never publicly in the state during civil rights struggle1l two decades revealed what he had been told about the Klans earlier. Among those cases was the murder of man's role with the FBI. Now he says, "It surprised Willie Edwards. me very much that an informant, who they said was Baxley's 1976 investigation revealed that the their best informant, was the ringleader out killing oung husband and father was abducted by a group a poor innocent young man like Willie Edwards." of white men, including Alexander, who accused Edwards' murder came amid a period of increas him of making a pass at a white woman - a charge ing racial violence in Montgomery. Shortly after Edwards denied. The Klansmen then forced the Supreme Court banned segregated seating on Edwards into their car, threatening to castrate him buses in late 1956, Montgomery was rocked by ifhe did not confess. bombings and shootings, and Alexander and his Finally, a terrified Edwards, "sobbing and beg Klan cohorts were involved in much of the vio ging for his life," as' one Klansman recalled in a lence. He was among those arrested for the 1957 1976 deposition, was driven to a bridge and forced bombing of four black churches and two houses, at gunpoint to jump. "I remember that he and was a suspect in the 1956 bombing of Dr. Mar- screamed on the way down," the Klansman's state tin Luther King's home. . ment read. Despite the arrests, Alexander was never tried on Just before his death last year, Alexander told his any of the charges, though others involved in those wife that he had lied about the; charge against crimes were tried and acquitted. Edwards to enhance his stature among fellow Edwards' daughters and son-in-law gather at the Civil Dees said the FBI's new director, Louis Freeh, Klansmen. "That man never done anything," Rights Memorial. From left: Mildred Edwards Betts, has "issued assurances to us that the matter will be Alexander said. Malinda Edwards O'Neil and Earl O'Neil. investigated fully." Although the agency's record of Edwards' decompps.ed body was found by fisher promoting violence during the civil rights era has men three months after his death. No arrests were In 1976, Baxley obtained indictments against come under scrutiny in recent years, Dees praised made at the time of the killing and the case was Alexander and three other Klansmen. Mter a judge Freeh's record on civil rights and urged him to closed after a 'brief investigation. It was not dismissed the indictments for failing to list a cause open Alexander's files to "dispel doubt and clear reopened for 19 year.s.. of death, FBI agents confided to Baxley that the record." NAACP Gets Klan Assets in Forsyth Case Settlement An Open Letter to Center Supporters (continued from page 1) case against the Invisible Empire, its Imperial Wizard It also agreed to quit publishing James W. Farrands, of Gulf, • Ip May 1993, I traveled to Montgomery from my home in its newspaper, The Klansman, N.C., and its former Georgia Tempe, Ariz., for an inside look at the Southern Poverty Law Cen and to turn over membership Grand Dragon Daniel Carver. t PAGE 6 SPLC REPORT • JANUARY 1994 Future Teachers at Temple U. Study Teaching Tolerance • Since its debut in 1991, about the magazine. She then Teaching Tolerance magazine forwarded the letters to Sara and the America's Civil Rights Bullard, editor of Teaching Movement1:eaching kit have Tolerance. The following are been requested by many col some excerpts. leges and universities for use by instructors in education • Teaching Tolerance is an courses. By providing pre-ser excellent journal for educators. vice and in-service education Tolerance is something that not majors with ideas, approaches only children but all of America and resources for teaching is lacking. We must teach the young people how to get future generation not only about along and accept those who our different colors and races, but are different from them, must also instruct our pupils in these instructors are playing a the acceptance of all races, reli vital role in the education gions, politics and abilities. efforts of the Teaching Toler - Jennifer Weber ance project. • The articles made me think. One instructor who has Reading this magazine stirred up used Teaching Tolerance maga emotions such as anger, compas zine since its inception in her sion, happiness, sadness and education classes is Dr. Trudy many more. It felt good to know Moskowitz of Temple Univer that the. idea of fighting for sity in Philadelphia, Pa. In equality was not just a fad ofthe her course Multicultural '60s but a never-ending learning Multigroup Relations, each process. student receives a"copy of the - Jill Sterner first issue of Teaching Toler ance to study and react to. • As most teachers-to-be, I "I have used this issue since would imagine, I too dreamt llj it sets the scene so well for a teaching "perfect" children in a Education majors at Temple University in Philadelphia study Teaching Tolerance magazine in Dr. new class of future teachers "perfect" school in a "perfect" Trudy Moskowit:r. 's class. about to explore the field," world but believed that in this day explains Dr. Moskowitz. and age that dream would be vir • It is refreshing to know there .ularfield and gives me hope for a We appreciate Dr. Mosko The last time she taught tually impossible. Teaching Tol are teachers who share mutual brighter future, both for our witz sharing these letters with the course, Dr. Moskowitz erance, however, showed me that feelings on our educational sys youth as well as myself. I look for us and ~ways welcome feed decided to have her students with patience, imagination and tem and are always looking to ward to subscribing to your mag back from educators using write a Letter to the Editor dedication, anything is possible. improve their skills. ... It made azine when I graduate. our Teaching Tolerance expressing their feelings - Shannon Hines me feel proud to be in this partic- - Michelle Morris materials:· DOr\ORS VISIT SPlC On a recent visit to Alabama, lcmgtime Center supporterJanice Cowen ofLos Altos, Last August, a group ofeducators and Teaching Tolerance supportersfrom Chica Calif., toured the Center and the Civil Rights Memorial. Standing near the map in go, Ill., visited the Center. Shown are (I to r): Josephine Fulton, SPLC Executive Klanwatch which depicts white supremacist activity in the nation are (I to r): SPLC Director Eddie Ashworth, Alberta Gray, Qarice Durham, SPLC President Morris Executive Director Eddie Ashworth, Ms. Cowen, and Planned Giving Director Dees, Rosalie Davis, Charles Davis, LorettaJordan, Marguerite Davis, and Amelia Montjuy. Larine Mays. PAGE 7 SPLC REPORT • JANUARY 1994 I~ • Memorial and honorary gifts received by the Law • ME\lORIA\l Center since August 1993 IN MEMORY OF IN HONOR OF Law Center Remembers Adam OingenpeeI Nancy V. Andrew Asher Abelow Douglas E. Ashford Norm and Netta Berman • Adam Stuart George Mason last May and was accepted by Harvey Auld Eliyana Rebecca Adler and Clingenpeel ofFred 'Adam's brother Phillip, a freshman at Bertha Debra Bayla Stephen Eliezer Bickel ericksburg, Va., was James Madison University. Norman Becker Herbert Boyce killed in an automo Adam is remembered as a loyal friend. Ralph Belleheirn Maxwell Bralow bile accidentThanks Easy-going, happy and caring, he was Gilbert S. Berman Dr. Thomas Carew Dr. Libby Brateman and giving weekend of known for his unpretentious manner and Sophie Clayman Friends 1992. The morning infectious smile. According to his mother, Edward Cooper Peter Cauterucci before his death, "Adam personified tolerance and was Bob and Mjchelle Cooney " Ada.¢, a senior at quick to react if anyone was being treated Dr. Daiell ·i~'f'- ,.; lloyd Abbott Daniel's Pat Cooperstein George Mason University, had discussed unfairly." William Dean Lissy Coppel with his parents, Sug and Randall Clingen Adam's death gained national attention Thayer Diebel Phillip Cowin peel, his plans to become a civil rights when the television news show Day One Willie Edwards jackG. Day lawyer. Adam had learned of the Center's highlighted the efforts of his father and the Harold Field Shirley and Carl Eagle work from a professor and hoped for an driver of the car, Adam's friend Neil Glan Morton Fine Daniel Eckstein internship with SPLC. Mter his death, the cy, to make drivers in Virginia think twice VrrJis Fischer Pearl Endy Center received over 80 memorial gifts from about drinking and driving. The two joined AnnaFisher Susan Endy Adam's family, friends, and Sigma Chi fra- forces to share their tragic story with young IdaFrankle ternity brothers. " people applying for driver's licenses. InezE. Gibbs J\lme Farrelly '~6rn June 18, J971, in Fredericksburg, The rrletflt5riaI< g!ftsTecclved in Adam's Dr. Glenn Giffe,n Dorothy,FilSon HyGillrnan RuthFine Adam graduated from James Monroe High name arebeing used to further the Center's Max Gordoll jonathanFishman School in 1989. His B.S. degree in American goals of promoting tolerance and e~adicat- , Katherine Gould Ken Freed Studies was awarded posthumously by ing hatred and violence. LanyGross Gretchen Fuchs and Dr. and Mrs. H. B. Steven Stein Handelsman Kenyatta and Craig Mildred M. Hillier Futterman CarrollJackson ,Beth anq]ohn Gamel Ab~1rn Koprak , StJ; Gii<;k PARTNERS FOR THE FUTURE . Ethel Kraus -',:,. Sister Laiu:-a GOnzalez Ross Marshall Laycock Leonard Lazar L6uise Harris .A Way To Help More Than You Thought You Could Harry Levine Barbara and Howard Roberta Lipschutz Hillyer Cantor Michael Loring Jim Houston he Southern Poverty Law Center Gerard Maloney Judge andMrs. J~lian has established a planned giving Maggje Maxwell Houston T program called Partners for the Bob Maynard Dr. MerleJordon Future. By participating in Partners for R.1iJSfl Miranda jacaJyn ~d?;and Kenneth .... the Future through wills and other means Madelyn Mullaney Cooper of planned giving, Center donors can Manuel and Elisabeth Marlene Kolbert extend their support for equality and jus ~unsey Karole Jo Kopacek and tice beyond their own lifetimes. Gordon W. Ness Bruce Philip Kurnow Through wills, trusts and other Orpba Nickell Dr. RicHard Krauss arrangements, Center supporters can help Hal Painter ensure that the Center is there to help the Hilda B. Parker Rolland 4mensdorf victims of injustice and racial violence An,dre Pettaway Paul]. Mack well into the next century. ku H. Pick.~ Dr'1I!tJddy Mason"," If you plan to or have already Dr R.:Pie ~icAeU ,¥urd9fkt} remembered the Center in your will or Pollk:oif nr, W"Brien and'v, established a trust, please help the Center Henly Redstone' the USF Mi~James update its records by sending a'letter to Richard Center the address below. Shirlee Romano 'Matthew Ornstein Aaron Ryen With the goal of eventually freeing nearly half of which has been attained, Leslie Petrovski Marianne Schwerin . itself from the uncertainties of fundrais This will establish a dependable financial Reverend Robert Reed Bernard Shallit ing, the Center decided to establish a per base that will allow the Center to free '*' I:eslie, Tony and Ellie jQSeph ~anny" Singer, manent endowment large enough to itself from the uncertainties of direct-mail " Smith' Reiner-Kriseman sustain the Center's operations for many fundraising. The Endowment Fund is a Stan6el • R;<>g~ years to come. "pact wjth future generations" that will ~~S~k'/ y The Center's goal for the Endow help ensure resources for the Center's l0i dThomas Lottie Paul Rosen \ ment is $100 million by the year 2000, work well into the 21st century. Franklin H. Thule Dr. and Mrs; Arthur Roth RolfVan Meurs Dorothy and Eliot ------David FnWklin Vandenyn Silverman Please send information about Check one of the following boxes for specfic LaelWade joan SitQmer Partners for the Future to: information: The Father ofjoey Beryl W. Stiles c-:-=------O WILLS o REVOCABLE TRUSTS Walthall NAME Friends ofDr. Ralph W. Lind ingarten o LIFE INCOME TRUSTS 0 SECURITIES :J ~iilltein stUrdy, Je"ecosky", AO=-=O=R=-=ES"'-S REAL ESTATE GIFTS RETIREMENT PLANS .Eli Town~nd ",,,; ------0 o Diane Wade and Gregory' elch o INSURANCE POLICIES 0 GIFT ANNumES Judge Seymour Wenner Troutman Lillian R and Sydney B. Nina and Ted Wells OTY STATE ZIP o CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRUSTS Wexler Nancy and David Wilber Sylvia Wmter jane Wren Mail to: Partners for the Future, The Southern Poverty Law Center • • P.O. Box 548 • Montgomery, AL 36101-0548 PAGE 8 SPLC REPORT • JANUARY 1994