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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 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 ACLU in 2024 was $383 million. The ACLU provides legal assistance in cases where it considers civil liberties at risk.
Crystal Eastman was one of the co-founders of the CLB, the predecessor to the ACLU.. The ACLU developed from the National Civil Liberties Bureau (CLB), co-founded in 1917 during World War I by Crystal Eastman, an attorney activist, and Roger Nash Baldwin. [1]
Roger Nash Baldwin (January 21, 1884 – August 26, 1981) was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950. He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950.
1931 Stromberg v. California, 283 U.S. 359 (1931) - represented Yetta Stromberg; 1932 Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45 (1932) - represented the Scottsboro Boys; 1933 United States v.
Harry Frederick Ward Jr. [a] (15 October 1873 – 9 December 1966) was an English-born American Methodist minister and political activist who identified himself with the movement for Christian socialism, best remembered as first national chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from its creation in 1920 until his resignation in protest of the organization's decision to bar ...
Illinois residents caught up in the criminal justice system collectively forked over an average of nearly $150 million a year in bail between 2016 and 2019. Those who couldn't pay up were put in jail.
Aryeh Neier (born April 22, 1937) [1] is an American human rights activist who co-founded Human Rights Watch, [2] served as the president of George Soros's Open Society Institute philanthropy network from 1993 to 2012, [3] had been National Director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1970 to 1978, and he was also involved with the creation of the group SDS [4] [5] by being directly ...
An Illinois youth lockup is "no place for children," argued a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in June. A new ProPublica and Capitol News Illinois analysis of documents ...