The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization in the United States dedicated to defending and preserving individual rights and liberties.

Civil rights movements are a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law, that peaked in the 1960s.

Detroit is the largest city in the state of Michigan and the seat of Wayne County.

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The Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution is celebrated on January 30 in California and a growing number of additional states to commemorate the birthday of Fred Korematsu, a Japanese-American civil rights activist best known for resisting the internment of Japanese Americans (see Korematsu v.

Homer Adolph Plessy (born Homère Patris Plessy; 1858, 1862 or March 17, 1863 - March 1, 1925) was an American shoemaker and activist, who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v.

"I Have a Dream" is a famous and influential speech delivered by civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.