Reminiscences of Anthony D. Romero : oral history, 2002.

Biographical Note

Lawyer/Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union.

Scope and Contents

Born Bronx, New York; education: Princeton University, Stanford Law School; career: International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Director of the Human Rights and Peace program at Ford Foundation, Executive Director of American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] beginning August 2001; post-9/11 work: impact on ACLU, responses to Patriot Act and Freedom of Information Act, suppression of internal dissent, evaluation of media, Congress, and courts, anti-Muslim bias, impact of governmental secrecy on civil liberties.

Subjects

• Albarelli, Gerry, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• American Civil Liberties Union--Employees--Interviews.
• Civil rights--United States.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Romero, Anthony D.--Interviews.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
• Terrorism--Prevention--Law and legislation--United States.
• United States.--Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001.

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