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.
Helen Keller
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Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when
American Civil Liberties Union
…Liberties Union Predecessor National Civil Liberties Bureau Formation January 19, 1920 Founders Jeannette Rankin Roger Nash Baldwin Crystal Eastman Helen Keller Walter Nelles Morris Ernst Albert DeSilver Arthur Garfield Hays Jane Addams Felix Frankfurter Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Type 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization…
Keller c. 1904
Keller's birthplace in Tuscumbia, Alabama
Keller (left) with Anne Sullivan vacationing on Cape Cod in July 1888
Keller in the Radcliffe College yearbook, 1904