But when did the organization start to kind of stray from that original mission or that original course? So straight from that course in at least two ways and two time periods. The The first was In the 1980s, the lawyers all quit because they said that Morris Dees took the organization in a direction of fighting the Klan instead of representing poor people in the South. And then the more recent time was really starting in the late 1990s, but ramping up by 1,000% in 2010 when they had their hate map and they started going after conservative organizations. (00:55–01:09)
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Asserts that in the 1980s, SPLC shifted focus from representing poor people to fighting the Klan.
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