Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Tulsa Law Review
Abstract
In the years when the ACLU was a relatively powerless group meeting in a Manhattan phone booth, worrying about its internal care and feeding was not particularly important. In the modem era, though, where the ACLU has morphed into a quasi-official organization that is responsible for organizing the Constitution's most important line of defense, the governance of the ACLU is itself a locus of concern. Thus, in view of my lifelong association with the ACLU, and my affection and respect for Nadine as a builder of the organization, I propose to devote my symposium article in her honor, not to an analysis of an "external" legal issue, but to a second look at an "internal" issue that has haunted the ACLU for sixty-five years-the 1940 decision to expel Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a board member since 1937 and a charter member since 1919, from the ACLU Board of Directors because she had become a member of the American Communist Party in 1937 and a member of its National Governing Committee in 1938.
First Page
799
Volume
41
Publication Date
2006
Recommended Citation
Burt Neuborne,
Of Pragmatism and Principle: A Second Look at the Expulsion of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn From the ACLU's Board of Directors,
41
Tulsa Law Review
799
(2006).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-articles/877
