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Friendly Fire : The ACLU in Utah
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Salt Lake City
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Signature Books
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"As a public force in Utah for half a century, the American Civil Liberties Union has battled, among other injustices, the prejudice of one politician who wanted Salt Lake City's African Americans relocated to a gheto neighborhood. Such discrimination survives in more subtle ways, such as in the public strip-search of a long-haired teenager whose "offense" was that he fit a police drug-user profile. It emerges in the detainment of a building subcontractor who was thought to be carrying "too much cash." Sillitoe's fast-paced, accessible history treats the local chapter's internal upheavals in tandem with its ongoing skirmishes with outside forces. In this tale of political clout and paranoia, law enforcement muscle and varying moralities, Sillitoe gives an inside view of the push and shove of competing agendas. In taking on some of society's most vulnerable groups and marginalized individual, Sillitoe concludes, the ACLU espouses in practical terms the creed of Utah's Mormon majority." [Author]
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