Topics: Heads of Organizations or Founders

• A. Mitchell Palmer

  A. Mitchell Palmer directed the "Palmer raids," a series of roundups of thousands of radicals suspected of communist subversion. The raids violated First...

• Greg Lukianoff

  Greg Lukianoff is the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and one of the country’s most passionate defenders of free...

• J. Edgar Hoover

  J. Edgar Hoover was director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years. His critics accused him violating individuals’ First Amendment rights...

• Joseph Breen

  Joseph Ignatius Breen, one of the most powerful people in Hollywood, developed the moral guidelines that shaped the content of the films shown in America for...

• Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Madalyn Murray O’Hair, an atheist, filed several lawsuits that dealt with First Amendment separation of church and state issues, including prayer in public...

• Robert Shibley

  Robert Shibley is a leading advocate for First Amendment rights on college campuses and the executive director of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education...

• Roger Baldwin

  Roger Baldwin formed the ACLU in 1920. During his 30-year tenure there, the organization spurred many landmark cases upholding First Amendment freedoms...

• Theodore Schroeder

  Theodore Schroeder a lawyer and prolific writer on free expression rights granted by the First Amendment, was one of the founders and long-time secretary of the...