During the height of World War II, the ACLU represented Japanese-American Gordon Hirabayashi after he refused to report to an internment camp in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court.
When Gordon Hirabayashi was a young man in 1943, Japanese-Americans were perceived as a threat based on their racial heritage and were forcibly required to move into internment camps.
October 24th is the first day of early-voting for the 2016 election in Alaska, and we're celebrating the right (and duty) to vote all day.
It's back!
Books that are geared towards young adults and are about women, people of color, or gay and transgender people are often the first targets for censorship.
It’s time for our Third Annual Banned Books Pub Quiz! Join Anchorage Public Library, UAA/APU Consortium Library, and the American Civil Liberties Union as we celebrate our freedom to discover!