entitled "Inside American Terror", which covered the SPLC's successful lawsuit against the Ku Klux Klan.In their 2009 book The White Separatist Movement in the United States: 'White Power, White Pride!, sociologists Betty A. Dobratz and Stephanie L. Shanks-Meile said that the SPLC's Klanwatch Intelligence Reports sometimes portrayed the KKK as more "militant and dangerous with higher turnouts" than what they personally had observed. In 2013, J.M. Berger wrote in Foreign Policy that media organizations should be more cautious when citing the SPLC and ADL, arguing that they are "not objective purveyors of data". In their 2015 book Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints and Voices, Roger Chapman and James Ciment cited the criticism of SPLC by journalist Ken Silverstein, who said that the SPLC's fundraising appeals and finances were deceptive. Laurence Leamer's 2016 book, entitled The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan, centred around the role played by Morris Dees as SPLC's co-founder, who won the case against the Klan which provided the family of the teenager Michael Donald, lynched by the Klan in 1981 in Mobile, Alabama, with restitution from the Klan. Marc Thiessen, in a June 2018 opinion piece for The Washington Post, asserted that the SPLC had lost its credibility and "become a caricature of itself". In the wake of Morris Dees' dismissal in March 2019, former SPLC staffer Bob Moser published an article in The New Yorker'', "The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center", in which he described his disappointment with what the SPLC had become. Explanatory notes References Citations General and cited references Further reading External links 1971 establishments in Alabama African-American history of Alabama Anti-fascist organizations in the United States Anti-racist organizations in the United States Civil rights organizations in the United States Opposition to antisemitism in the United States Organizations established in 1971 Opposition to Islamophobia 501(c)(3) organizations