ACLU
The ACLU is the American Civil Liberties Union, which was run for its first 30 years by a American citizen named Roger Baldwin, who helped found it in 1920 in response to the Espionage Act and Sedition Act.
The ACLU of Michigan defended a Christian student seeking to have a Biblical passage on the student's yearbook page.[1]
The ACLU has been behind many of the more drastic civil rights changes in history. In one important example, the ACLU helped put a stop to segregation by ending the use of racially restrictive covenants, which were a form of de facto private segregation.[2] Additionally, the ACLU helped litigate the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, and was behind the first case to suggest a Constitutional right to privacy, Griswold v. Connecticut.
References
- ↑ http://www.aclu.org/studentsrights/expression/12845prs20040511.html
- ↑ Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1
External Links
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- Anti-ACLU sites: