Word: aclu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meantime, the Civil Liberties Union has taken up his case, Temple University has threatened to release further "withheld information" on the professor if the ACLU releases its report, and his lawyer has admitted to the CRIMSON that he was formerly a member of the Communist party...
...Philadelphia branch of the ACLU immediately took up Dunham's defense, charging that Temple had violated due process of law and academic freedom in its action against him. An ACLU committee, consisting of A.H. Frey and Clark Byse, Law professors at the University of Pennsylvania and Henry Sawyer, 3d., Philadelphia attorney, submitted a report-not yet made public-to Temple officials...
...reply to the report, Temple tersely threatened to "release more information on Professor Dunham"-which they had discovered in private closed hearing with him, following his suspension and prior to his final dismissal if the ACLU were to make public this report...
...statement on the "easy-firing bill," the ACLU said that "if, disregarding 160 years of American history, its proponents wish to rescind the privilege against self-incrimination, let them do so in an orderly, Constitutional fashion." Pechan's bill, the ACLU says, "circumvents" this privilege...
...American Civil Liberties Union and the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. The law school group was formed by people interested in performing legal work for the CLUM and we have given such aid on several occasions. Our activities have always been guided by the policies of the ACLU. However, we are not an affiliate of either the ACLU or the CLUM, and we are completely independent of those organization in all our activities...