Since its founding after World War I, the American Civil Liberties Union has become an integral part of American society. The history of the ACLU parallels the extension of civil rights and liberties in the United States. With a total of 1454 entries spanning almost three quarters of a century, this annotated bibliography provides an important research tool for scholars, attorneys, and policy analysts. The author has organized the work into six chapters: general works concerning the ACLU, the history of the organization, contemporary and related civil liberties issues, ACLU leaders, and resources to guide scholars.
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.
Volume contains: (All Continent Corp against Pappy's Inc & Mammy's Inc) (Amtorg Trading Corp & Camden Fibre Mills Inc/ Camden Fibre Mills, Inc against Amtorg Trading Corp) (Amtorg Trading Corp & Camden Fibre Mills Inc/ Camden Fibre Mills, Inc against Amtorg Trading Corp) (Amtorg Trading Corp & Camden Fibre Mills Inc/ Camden Fibre Mills, Inc against Amtorg Trading Corp) (Francis S. Appleby & Eva Lee Appleby against Spencer Bates et al ) (Francis S. Appleby & Eva Lee Appleby against Spencer Bates et al ) (City Bank Farmers Trust Co against Rival Shoe Co Inc) (City Bank Farmers Trust Co against Rival Shoe Co Inc) (Dr. Frank M. Atkins DDS; Review of Suspension) (Dr. Frank M. Atkins DDS; Review of Suspension) (Jacob Auslander against Board of Regents of U of State of NY/ Louis Miller against Board of Regents of U of State of NY) (Jacob Auslander against Board of Regents of U of State of NY/ Louis Miller against Board of Regents of U of State of NY) (Jacob Auslander against Board of Regents of U of State of NY/ Louis Miller against Board of Regents of U of State of NY) (Jacob Auslander against Board of Regents of U of State of NY/ Louis Miller against Board of Regents of U of State of NY) (Jacob Auslander against Board of Regents of U of State of NY/ Louis Miller against Board of Regents of U of State of NY) (Jules Backman to Hon Spencer E. Bates et al ) (Jules Backman to Hon Spencer E. Bates et al ) (Zlota Baczkowska against 2166 Operating Corp & 2162 Operating corp) (Zlota Baczkowska against 2166 Operating Corp & 2162 Operating corp) (Zlota Baczkowska against 2166 Operating Corp & 2162 Operating corp) (Zlota Baczkowska against 2166 Operating Corp & 2162 Operating corp) (Michael J. Barry against John F O'Connell et al ) (Michael J. Barry against John F O'Connell et al ) (Dr. Edward K. Barsky ; Review of Suspension) (Dr. Edward K. Barsky ; Review of Suspension) (Dr. Edward K Barsky ; Review of Suspension) (Dr. Edward K Barsky ; Review of Suspension) (Herman Bartlett against Mt. Zion Church against Gaither Galemb et al / Action No. 2 Herman Bartlett against Mt. Zion Church agaisnt Gaither Galmer) (Herman Bartlett against Mt. Zion Church against Gaither Galemb et al / Action No. 2 Herman Bartlett against Mt. Zion Church agaisnt Gaither Galmer) (Herman Bartlett against Mt. Zion Church against Gaither Galemb et al / Action No. 2 Herman Bartlett against Mt. Zion Church agaisnt Gaither Galmer) (Herman Bartlett against Mt. Zion Church against Gaither Galemb et al / Action No. 2 Herman Bartlett against Mt. Zion Church agaisnt Gaither Galmer) (Pauline Baum against Hadassa Crosfield) (Pauline Baum against Hadassa Crosfield) (Bell Aircraft Corp v The Board of Assessors of City of Buffalo) (Bell Aircraft Corp v The Board of Assessors of City of Buffalo) (Bell Aircraft Corp v The Board of Assessors of City of Buffalo)
How Sex Became a Civil Liberty shows how we came to see sexual expression, sexual practice, and sexual privacy as fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution, thanks to the work of ACLU leaders and attorneys who forged legal principles that advanced the sexual revolution.
