{"id":1231,"date":"2008-05-08T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesthisweek.wordpress.com\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:35:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:35:28","slug":"morris-dees-author-and-founder-and-chief-trial-counsel-of-the-southern-poverty-law-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/05\/08\/morris-dees-author-and-founder-and-chief-trial-counsel-of-the-southern-poverty-law-center\/","title":{"rendered":"With Justice for All in Our Multicultural Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/images\/cmr\/2008-05-13\/dees-100x130.jpg\" alt=\"Morris Dees\" width=\"100\" height=\"130\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morris Dees<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Weaving stories from the Bible, from the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and from his own biography, Southern Poverty Law Center co-founder Morris Dees presents a compelling, sometimes emotional address at Bates College on May 8 as the Presidential Symposium keynote speaker.\u00a0From MPBN&#8217;s Speaking in Maine. (Total time: 1:07:42) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x175975.xml\">[More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1231-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/onlinemedia\/files\/thisweek\/audio\/speaking-in-maine\/714620.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/onlinemedia\/files\/thisweek\/audio\/speaking-in-maine\/714620.mp3\">http:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/onlinemedia\/files\/thisweek\/audio\/speaking-in-maine\/714620.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morris Dees, founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center, spoke on civil rights and multi-culturalism. (Total time: 1:07:42)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,130,14,195,220,224,234,11009],"tags":[11002,11051,11302,2286,5708,10753,7161],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-collaboration","category-faculty-staff","category-news-politics","category-service","category-society-culture","category-teaching-education","category-the-college","tag-audio","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-business-and-law","tag-civil-rights","tag-martin-luther-king-jr","tag-podcasts","tag-presidential-symposium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83254,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/83254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}