Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakatuhia te ACLU-NJ i te Pipiri 16, 1960, i te wa i huihui ai nga mema o te ACLU i North Jersey- me South Jersey i Newark ki te whakatuu i tetahi hononga a-rohe. I te tekau tau tuatahi, i whakatūria e te ACLU-NJ te Community Legal Action Workshop (CLAW) hei tautoko i ngā tāngata i roto i te taone nui i ngā takahi i ngā herekore ā-iwi i runga i te tirohanga o te mahi a te kāwanatanga.
Ko nga tutu o Newark. Ko nga roia a ACLU a Ruth Bader Ginsburg me Annamay Sheppard, e rua o Rutgers School of Law <unk> Newark i taua wa, i tohe i te keehi whakahāweatanga ira tangata o te tau 1972 o Abbe Seldin, nana nei i wikitoria tona tika ki te purei tēnehi i te kapa tane a Teaneck High School.