News & Commentary
Feb 26, 2020
The ACLU's Long Battle for Racial Justice
Perhaps less well known is that, since its founding in 1920, the ACLU has been engaged in the fight for civil rights and racial equality. In 1931, it took up the case of the Scottsboro Boys – nine African-American teenagers wrongly accused of raping two white women.
By Reggie Shuford
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