The American Civil Liberties Union is an American nonprofit civil rights organization founded in 1920. ACLU affiliates are active in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. The budget of the
Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU of Florida, joins in a protest of the Guantanamo Bay detentions with Amnesty International.
Crystal Eastman was one of the co-founders of the CLB, the predecessor to the ACLU.
Norman Thomas was one of the early leaders of the ACLU.
The ACLU defended H. L. Mencken when he was arrested for distributing banned literature.
McCarthyism
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McCarthyism is a political practice defined by the accusation and investigation of left-wing individuals of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the Unite
Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954
Executive Order 9835, signed by President Truman in 1947
Transcript of the US Department of the Interior Security Hearing Board proceedings against geologist Ruth A. M. Schmidt, suspected of communist sympathies due to her membership in the Washington Bookshop.
J. Edgar Hoover c. 1953