Walking a Pitch-Dark Road

Walking a Pitch-Dark Road

In his 1991 autobiography, A Season for Justice, the celebrated civil rights lawyer Morris Dees recounted the courtroom battles and close escapes of his career, with a particular focus on his creative legal strategy to bankrupt the Ku Klux Klan. (Full disclosure: I was one of the book’s editors.) As Dees urged in his introduction, his family and colleagues — and by extension, his readers — should know him by his cases; chapter by chapter, decade…