The ACLU announced Monday that Archer was elected as president of the national board.
Credit:	Philip Greenberg/AP

The ACLU announced Monday that Archer was elected as president of the national board.
Credit: Philip Greenberg/AP

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ACLU, for first time in its 101-year history, elects an African American as its president

Deborah Archer, a clinical law professor at New York University, has been elected as the new president of the American Civil Liberties Union -- the first Black person to hold the position.