betty anne bruno talked to dees back in 1991. >> reporter: born and raised in the deep south. morris dees grew up in alabama. his uncles were bible carrying ku klux klan members. >> i try not to follow classes. i really believe in fairness and justice. >> reporter: last fall dees won a verdict against a klan member for the killing of an ethiopian man. that case and others where are portrayed in a tv movie called "line of fire." these things have placed dees on a hit list. >> a young member of its organization mark sums is getting a prison sentence down in fall brook for a plan that would involve causing physical harm and the fbi caught him. he was convicted. it was fbi who helped find the people who burned and kill the residents. i think it's -- i'm blessed to know that they are out there doing it. >> reporter: here in the bay area there has been a rash of incidents. dees says the neo natzis and skin heads are growing in the bayarea. >> along comes a mexican saying, their problems are not their problems. you have to stop them. you have to hurt them. you have to keep them down