(Daily Caller) News footage from 1989 has surfaced which shows Morris Dees, the founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights organization that tracks hate groups, acknowledging that the Confederate flag was part of his southern heritage.
"This is my home. I love this area. The Confederate flag that's flying over that capitol today is just as much a part of my heritage as Dr. [Martin Luther] King's march down 6th Avenue," Dees tells an interviewer during the Nov. 5, 1989, dedication ceremony of the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Ala.
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Dees was on hand to dedicate the SPLC-sponsored memorial to the civil rights workers and other key civil rights figures who were murdered by white supremacists during the 1950s and 1960s.
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