![]() Since its founding, the ACLU has argued more women's rights cases before the United States Supreme Court than any other organization and has done more work to promote women's liberty and equality than many organizations devoted exclusively to that goal. ![]() Suffragists and othe r women social reformers and political activists - among them, Jane Addams, Mary Ware Dennett, Crystal Eastman and Jeannette Rankin - were instrumental in the founding of the organization in 1920. The ACLU advocated women's rights long before the feminist revival of the 1960s. From its defense of suffragist and birth control pioneer Mary Ware Dennett in the 1920s when the government declared her sex education pamphlet "obscene," to today's battle to admit women to The Citadel, a state-funded military academy, the ACLU continues to be vigilant in its defense of women's rights. THE ACLU AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS: PROUD HISTORY, CONTINUING STRUGGLEįor 75 years the ACLU has been in the forefront of the struggle to win full legal equality for women. ![]()
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