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Philippa Strum is a political scientist specializing in American constitutional law and civil liberties. A longtime lay leader of the ACLU, her numerous books include When the Nazis Came to Skokie and Speaking Freely, about two of the ACLU's seminal free speech cases; Women in the Barracks, the story behind the Supreme Court's gender equality decision in the Virginia Military Institute case; and Mendez v. Westminster, the tale of the first time a federal court declared separate but equal to be unequal — a case brought by Mexican-Americans and decided eight years before Brown v. Board of Education.