6 Post: Getting Her Activism Underway in the NCAA and ACLU

Suzy Post talks about joining the ACLU board and how she advocated for a more activist board. She talks about the Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee. She becomes president of the local chapter in 1964 and the first thing she does is create a women’s committee and discusses why women’s involvement is invaluable.

Suzy Post was born in 1933 and is a Civil Rights Activist living in Louisville, Kentucky. She served as President of what is now the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky and sat on the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

This interview took place on April 29, 2013 as part of the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries

To view the entire interview visit:

https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt74qr4nnx2t

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