The ACLU, led by its California affiliates, stood alone in speaking out about this atrocity. In 1954, the ACLU joined forces with the NAACP to challenge racial segregation in public schools. The ...

ACLU Elects First Black President in Its 101-Year History Deborah Archer will serve as the organization's eighth president since its conception in 1920 ...

Deborah Archer has become the first Black person in the 101-year history of the American Civil Liberties Union to be elected its president.

Deborah Archer, a professor at New York University School of Law with expertise in civil rights and racial justice, has become the first Black person in the 101-year history of the American Civil L… ...

Archer, a professor at New York University School of Law with expertise in civil rights and racial justice, has become the ACLU's first Black president in the organization's 101-year history.

Stressing the paramount importance of transparency and accountability, the ACLU has been commendably relentless in seeking the release of government documents exposing post 9/11 torture and ...

In keeping with the ACLU's commitment to all families, the ACLU represented a non-biological mom in 2006 and defended her rights as a legal parent – rights that she obtained through second-parent ...

Fort Bliss in Texas served as an internment facility during World War II, holding Japanese, German and Italian civilians.

The American Civil Liberties Union has been much scrutinized since its decision to represent white supremacists in their quest to march in Charlottesville, Va.

The ACLU will be working across the country to challenge unjust and inhumane conditions at ICE detention centers. Follow for ...

The ACLU announced Monday that Archer was elected over the weekend in a virtual meeting of the organization’s 69-member board of directors. She succeeds Susan Herman, a professor at Brooklyn Law ...