Past Events

Speaker: Know Your Rights - What To Do If You're Stopped By Police

Alexandra Manautou, a Glickman Fellow with the ACLU of Texas, will serve on a panel discussion hosted by the Barbara Jordan Chapter, National Black Law Students Association at Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law and provide the following Know Your Rights information:

February 16, 2017 to
February 17, 2017

MLK Parade Meet-Up

On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to support sanitation workers. That evening, he delivered his famous “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech to a packed room of supporters. The next day, he was assassinated.

January 16, 2017 to
January 17, 2017

Statewide ACLU of Texas Meet-ups

There's a lot at stake in the coming months and years, but together we will rise to the challenge. Come meet up with to commiserate, brainstorm, and get to know one another.

November 29, 2016 to
December 15, 2016

Introduction to the Legislative Session

The Texas legislature's confusing and arcane processes and procedures might not be easy to grasp, but since it can have a great (and often terrible) effect on Texans' everyday lives, it's important to understand the basics.

December 8, 2016 to
December 9, 2016

30 Minutes: Immigrants' Rights

It's a particularly difficult time to be an immigrant anywhere in the country right now, but it's doubly so in Texas.

December 1, 2016 to
December 2, 2016

30 Minutes: Reproductive Freedom

When the legislature is in session, our elected officials do everything in their power—and sometimes beyond their power—to deny women access to both contraception and safe, legal abortion services. Last session they passed the most draconian anti-choice law the country has seen since Roe v.

November 17, 2016 to
November 18, 2016