Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - zanga-zangar 'yan Afirka na Afirka a Kudancin ya karu a farkon shekarun 1960, kuma ACLU ta taimaka a kowane mataki. Bayan daliban kwaleji hudu 'yan Afirka-Amurka sun shirya zaman zama
a wani babban kanti na Arewacin Carolina, zanga-zangar ta samu karbuwa a fadin Amurka. A lokacin 1960-1961, ACLU ta kare daliban baƙar fata da aka kama don nunawa a Arewacin Carolina, Florida, da Louisiana. ACLU ta kuma ba da taimako na shari'a ga 'Yancin' Yanci a 1961, hadewar Jami'ar Mississippi, yakin Birmingham a 1963, da kuma 1964 Freedom Summer.