Download or read book Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union written by Robert C. Cottrell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottsboro Boys and Sacco and Vanzetti were defended. The right of free speech for communists and Ku Klux Klansmen alike were upheld, and the foundations were laid for an end to school segregation.".