Since the ACLU's founding in 1920, the nonprofit, nonpartisan organization has grown from a roomful of civil liberties activists to an organization of more than 400,000 members and supporters, with offices covering every state. The ACLU's mission is to fight civil liberties violations wherever and whenever they occur--working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
