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ACLU Timespan
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Palmer Raids
ACLU comes to the defense of immigrants and the right to unionize against the raids ordered by Mitchell Palmer. -
Scopes Trial
Biology teacher charged with teaching evolution, ACLU defends him. -
Defending Japanese Americans
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. -
Brown vs The Board of Education
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. -
ACLU defends Nazi March
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. -
ACLU vs. Reno
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. -
FIghting the Patriot act
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. -
Keeping Religion out of Science Classrooms
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.
