The American Civil Liberties Union is seldom out of the news in the USA. In January 2017, it opposed President Trump’s order banning travel from seven countries to the USA, raising $24 million from supporters in 2 days and successfully filing lawsuits against the ban. So what exactly is ACLU, and what is its history?
ACLU was founded in January 1920 by a small group of activists, who were concerned to defend the rights granted to all US citizens by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They felt that these rights were under threat from the US government, after the treatment of those who voiced opposition to the USA’s involvement in the First World War.
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