Southern Poverty Law Center Marks 40th Anniversary of Civil Rights Agenda: More than 2,000 people from all over the U.S. gathered here on Saturday for the 40th anniversary of the Southern Poverty Law Center. They celebrated accomplishments of the past and looked to the future of the Center’s ongoing struggle for civil rights. The events spanned three days at venues all over the city that was ground zero of the civil rights movement.
In four decades, the Center’s mission hasn’t changed. It’s carved in stone on the monument outside the headquarters, not far from the church where Martin Luther King Jr., served as pastor. The words on the monument are King’s famous paraphrase of Amos 5:24:
“We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
