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.
Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era in the United States, especially in the Southern United States, was a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices that were deliberately used to prev
"The two platforms". From a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republican supporters of Black suffrage, issued during the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. The poster specifically characterizes Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer's platform as "for the White Man", represented here by the idealized head of a young White man (Clymer ran on a platform of white supremacy). In contrast, a stereotyped Black man's head represents the platform of Clymer's
Le Petit Journal 7 Oct 1906