After what Dees described in his autobiography as "a night of soul searching at a snowed-in Cincinnati airport" in 1967, he sold the company in 1969 to Times Mirror , the parent company of the Los Angeles Times . They also grew their business, Fuller and Dees Marketing, to include a multimillion-dollar publishing venture. They also grew their business, Fuller and Dees Marketing, to include a multimillion-dollar publishing venture. He ran a book publishing business, Fuller & Dees Marketing Group. Fuller made his first $1 million before he turned 30. Dees, Morris (Seligman), Jr. (1936– ) lawyer, activist; born in Shorter, Ala. As an undergraduate at the University of Alabama, he founded a direct mail order sales company, Fuller & Dees Marketing Group, which prospered into one of the largest publishing firms in the South. Dees calls Habitat the most successful charity founded in the last century. Dees bought out Fuller's share of the business in 1965. When Dees graduated from law school in 1960, he and Fuller formed their own law practice in Montgomery, Alabama. While studying law at the University of Alabama, he formed a direct-marketing company with Dees focusing on selling cookbooks and candy to high school chapters of the Future Homemakers of America. Core members of the WildRoots include Wainwright and Dees and Patricia Ann Dees, and they’re joined here by guest musicians ranging from drummer Michael Shrieve and guitarist Bryan Bassett to guitarist and vocalist John Oates and vocalist Beth McKee. He continued his mail order and book publishing business, Fuller & Dees Marketing Group, which grew to be one of the largest publishing companies in the South. The result, of course, is a rollicking, downright fun, album of soul, rock, and blues. The two attended Auburn University together before co-founding Fuller and Dees Marketing Group in 1960. Marketing career. Dees ran a direct mail and direct marketing business, Fuller & Dees Marketing Group, with Millard Fuller. “It gives everyone an opportunity to join hands for social and economic justice,” he said. Four years later, Dees drove a group of civil rights activists for the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches. Dees later sold his business, turning to law full-time. Dees bought out Fuller's share of the business in 1965. Dees was born into a Shorter, Alabama farming family in 1936. When Dees graduated from law school in 1960, he and Fuller formed their own law practice in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1969, Dees sold the company to Times Mirror, the parent company of the Los Angeles Times. In 1965, Fuller sold out to Dees, donated the money to charity, and later started Habitat for Humanity. He bought Fuller out in 1964 for $1 million, much of which Fuller donated to charity. After what Dees described in his autobiography as "a night of soul searching at a snowed-in Cincinnati airport" in 1967, he sold the company in 1969 to Times Mirror, the parent company of the Los Angeles Times. He ran a book publishing business, Fuller & Dees Marketing Group, which grew to become a successful company in its own right. While at the University of Alabama he founded Fuller & Dees Marketing Group, a nationwide specialty direct-market-sales publishing house (1960). Dees bought a 200-acre estate appointed with tennis courts, a pool, and stables, and, in 1971, founded the SPLC, where his compensation has risen in proportion to fund-raising revenues, from nothing in the early seventies to $273,000 last year.