# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morris-dees
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:08:24.784Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morris-dees"
name: "Morris Dees"
slug: "morris-dees"
description: "Morris Seligman Dees Jr. is an American attorney, businessman, and civil rights activist who in 1971 co-founded, alongside Joseph J. Levin Jr., and served as its chief trial counsel, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)."
tagline: "American activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Morris_Dees_Boston_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1936-12-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.97
  momentum:             7.44619799139168
  historical:           7.101356
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 135
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1009028/"
    handle:    "nm1009028"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Morris_Dees"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "موريس ديس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "موريس ديس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Dees"
    title: "Morris Dees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Dees"
    title: "Morris Dees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Dees"
    title: "Morris Dees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Dees"
    title: "Morris Dees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Dees"
    title: "Morris Dees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15525083"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump