ACLU

In November 1919 and January 1920, in what notoriously became known as the “Palmer Raids,” Attorney General Mitchell Palmer began rounding up and deporting so-called radicals. Thousands of people were arrested without warrants and without regard to constitutional protections against unlawful search and seizure. Those arrested were brutally treated and held in horrible conditions.

In the face of these egregious civil liberties abuses, a small group of people decided to take a stand, and thus was born the American Civil Liberties Union.
ACLU of the District of Columbia
Executive Director: Monica Hopkins
915 15th St. NW, 2nd Floor
Washington, DC 20005
United States
202-457-0800
Web: https://www.acludc.org/