AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonpartisan organization devoted to the preservation and extension of the basic rights set forth in the U. S. Constitution. It was founded (1920) by such prominent figures as Jane Addams, Helen Keller, Judah Magnus, and Norman Thomas.

The ACLU has participated directly or indirectly in almost every major civil liberties case contested in American courts. Included among these are the so-called Scopes “monkey trial” in Tennessee (1925), the Sacco-Vanzetti case (1920s), the Federal court test (1933) that ended the censorship of James Joyce’s Ulysses, and the landmark Brown v. Board of Education (1954) school desegregation case.

(The ACLU is on the web .)

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