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ACLU comes to the defense of immigrants and the right to unionize against the raids ordered by Mitchell Palmer.
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Biology teacher charged with teaching evolution, ACLU defends him.
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The ACLU comes to the defense of more than one-hundred thousand Japanese Americans after they were wrongfully forced into concentration camps by the US government.
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The ACLU joined the NAACP in the fight for equal education and won the court case declaring segregation of schools went against the 14th amendment.
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In 1978, Nazis marched through a Skokie, a Chicago Suburb where many Holocaust survivors lived. The ACLU sparked controversy when coming to the defense of the Nazis, arguing that despite the Nazi's unpopular views, they still deserve the right to have them.
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The ACLU convinces the supreme court of the United States to strike down the 1996 Communications Decency act, which was designed to permit only "acceptable" speech on the internet.
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The Patriot act was created in the aftermath of 9/11 in order to expand government surveillance programs and make it easier to prosecute terror suspects. Since its introduction, the act has been mired in controversy over concerns about human rights and the privacy of everyday Americans. The ACLU has taken a strong stand against the Patrioct act.
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The ACLU sided with a group of parents who sought to end a provision in the curriculum taught at a highschool in Dover, which required biology classes to present "intelligent design" as an alternative to evolution.
