News & Commentary written by Philippa Strum

Philippa Strum is a political scientist specializing in American constitutional law and civil liberties. A longtime lay leader of the ACLU, her numerous books include "When the Nazis Came to Skokie" and "Speaking Freely," about two of the ACLU's seminal free speech cases; "Women in the Barracks," the story behind the Supreme Court's gender equality decision in the Virginia Military Institute case; and "Mendez v. Westminster," the tale of the first time a federal court declared "separate but equal" to be unequal — a case brought by Mexican-Americans and decided eight years before Brown v. Board of Education.