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Directly benefited from a lawsuit, amicus brief, public statements, consultation, or legal representation from the American Civil Liberties Union.

Inclusion on this list does not imply that the beneficiaries necessarily coordinated their legal strategy with the ACLU.

See also: Sued by the ACLU

• 2 Live Crew (1990)
• American Library Association (2003)
• Association for Molecular Pathology (2009)
• Building Industry Association (2012)
• Citizens United (2009)
• Communist Party USA (1962)
• Council on American-Islamic Relations (2003)
• Insane Clown Posse (2014)
• Jehovah's Witnesses (1941, 1996, 2010)
• Kahane Chai (1991)
• Ku Klux Klan (1977, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2012, 2013)
• Labor Party (1975)
• The Los Angeles Times (1956)
• The New York Times (1964, 1971)
• North American Man/Boy Love Association (2000)
• Planned Parenthood (1992, 2003, 2007)
• Scientific American (1950)
• Socialist Workers Party (1974, 1986)
• United Farm Workers (1996)
• Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1972)
• The Washington Post (1971)
• Westboro Baptist Church (2006)
• Yahoo! (2002)
  
  
• Caryl Chessman (1959)
• Dr. Sam Sheppard (1966)
• The Hollywood Ten

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	Basketball	16-Apr-1947		NBA records for most minutes, most points
Mumia Abu-Jamal	Criminal	23-Apr-1954		Black Panther, sentenced to death
Anwar al-Awlaki	Religion	22-Apr-1971	30-Sep-2011	Yemeni video cleric, AQAP
Marion Barry	Politician	6-Mar-1936	22-Nov-2014	Twice Mayor of Washington, DC
Emily Bazelon	Journalist	1971		Senior Editor of Slate
Arthur Bremer	Assassin	21-Aug-1950		Shot Governor George Wallace
Ward Churchill	Activist	2-Oct-1947		Compared WTC victims to Adolf Eichmann
William Sloane Coffin	Activist	1-Jun-1924	12-Apr-2006	Civilly disobedient chaplain
Lester Cole	Screenwriter	19-Jun-1904	15-Aug-1985	Born Free
Archibald Cox	Government	17-May-1912	29-May-2004	Target of Watergate Saturday Night Massacre
Larry Craig	Politician	20-Jul-1945		US Senator from Idaho, 1990-2009
Mike Diana	Artist	5-Jun-1969		Boiled Angel
Edward Dmytryk	Film Director	4-Sep-1908	1-Jul-1999	The Caine Mutiny
David Duke	Activist	13-Jul-1950		Former KKK Grand Wizard
Louis Farrakhan	Religion	11-May-1933		Leader of Nation of Islam
Larry Flynt	Business	1-Nov-1942		Publisher of HUSTLER
Jane Fonda	Actor	21-Dec-1937		Barbarella
Henry Ford	Business	30-Jul-1863	7-Apr-1947	Founder of Ford Motors
Clarence Earl Gideon	Criminal	30-Aug-1910	18-Jan-1972	Gideon v. Wainwright
Gary Gilmore	Criminal	4-Dec-1940	17-Jan-1977	Executed by Utah firing squad
Allen Ginsberg	Poet	3-Jun-1926	5-Apr-1997	Howl!
Dick Gregory	Activist	12-Oct-1932		Autobiography: NIGGER!
Sean Hannity	TV Personality	30-Dec-1961		Hannity & Colmes
Nat Hentoff	Critic	10-Jun-1925		The Jazz Life
Alger Hiss	Government	11-Nov-1904	15-Nov-1996	Accused spy for the Soviet Union
Jimmy Hoffa	Labor Leader	14-Feb-1913	30-Jul-1975	International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Abbie Hoffman	Activist	30-Nov-1936	12-Apr-1989	Steal This Book
Leon Jaworski	Government	19-Sep-1905	9-Dec-1982	Watergate special prosecutor
Paula Jones	Victim	17-Sep-1966		Sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment
Ted Kaczynski	Criminal	22-May-1942		The Unabomber
Meir Kahane	Activist	1-Aug-1932	5-Nov-1990	Founder of Jewish Defense League
Rockwell Kent	Painter	21-Jun-1882	13-Mar-1971	Early 20th c. American realist painter
Fred Korematsu	Activist	30-Jan-1919	30-Mar-2005	Opposed internment camps
Corliss Lamont	Activist	28-Mar-1902	26-Apr-1995	Millionaire socialist
Ring Lardner, Jr.	Playwright	19-Aug-1915	31-Oct-2000	Screenwriter, M*A*S*H
Lyndon LaRouche	Economist	8-Sep-1922		Eccentric economist politician
John Howard Lawson	Playwright	25-Sep-1894	11-Aug-1977	One of the Hollywood Ten
G. Gordon Liddy	Government	30-Nov-1930		Watergate criminal, talk-show-host
Rush Limbaugh	Radio Personality	12-Jan-1951		Conservative talk show host
John Walker Lindh	Criminal	9-Feb-1981		The American Taliban
Mildred Loving	Activist	22-Jun-1939	2-May-2008	Interracial marriage
Allard Lowenstein	Politician	16-Jan-1929	14-Mar-1980	Congressman, New York 5th
Jeb Magruder	Government	5-Nov-1934	11-May-2014	Nixon's deputy campaign director
Albert Maltz	Playwright	28-Oct-1908	26-Apr-1985	One of the Hollywood Ten
James W. McCord, Jr.	Government	26-Jan-1924		Led the Watergate burglary
Norma McCorvey	Activist	22-Sep-1947		Jane Roe, of Roe v. Wade
Susan McDougal	Criminal	1955		Whitewater scandal
Tom Metzger	Activist	9-Apr-1938		White supremacist
Ernesto Miranda	Criminal	9-Mar-1941	31-Jan-1976	Miranda v. Arizona
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed	Terrorist	1-Mar-1964		Al Qaeda's #3 man
Michael Newdow	Activist	24-Jun-1953		Waged war against "under God"
Oliver North	Military	7-Oct-1943		Perjuring Iran-Contra figure
Madalyn Murray O'Hair	Religion	13-Apr-1919	Sep-1995	Atheist spokeswoman
Jose Padilla	Terrorist	18-Oct-1970		Convicted of conspiracy
George Rockwell	Activist	9-Mar-1918	25-Aug-1967	Founded American Nazi Party
Margaret Sanger	Activist	14-Sep-1879	6-Sep-1966	Birth control advocate
Michael Schiavo	Relative	3-Apr-1963		Terri Schiavo's husband
John T. Scopes	Educator	3-Aug-1900	21-Oct-1970	Defendant in the Scopes Monkey Trial
Sirhan Sirhan	Assassin	19-Mar-1944		Assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
Benjamin Spock	Doctor	2-May-1903	15-Mar-1998	Baby and Child Care
Dalton Trumbo	Author	9-Dec-1905	10-Sep-1976	Johnny Got His Gun
Karla Faye Tucker	Criminal	18-Nov-1959	3-Feb-1998	First woman executed in Texas since 1863
George Wallace	Politician	25-Aug-1919	13-Sep-1998	Governor of Alabama, crippled by assassin
Tom Wicker	Journalist	18-Jun-1926	25-Nov-2011	The New York Times
Tookie Williams	Criminal	29-Dec-1953	13-Dec-2005	Co-Founder, West Side Crips

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