Taming Free Speech w/ Laura Weinrib
The Dig
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The ACLU and the New Deal
With the New Deal, the state for the first time stepped up to defend rather than repress union rights. The ACLU remained wary of the state thanks in part to its history with the IWW and the severe repression needed out during World War I. But they were also on their way to becoming a different sort of organization entirely, a respectable, liberal, and court-oriented one.
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