First Amendment Center

American civil liberties organization The First Amendment Center, founded in 1991, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that supports the First Amendment and builds understanding of its core freedoms through education, information, and entertainment. The center serves as a forum for the study and exploration of free-expression issues, including freedom of speech, of the press and of religion, and the rights to assemble and to petition the government. History John Seigenthaler founded the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in 1991. In 2007, the First Amendment Center had offices at Vanderbilt and Arlington, Va. Programs The First Amendment Center is an operating program of the Freedom Forum and is associated with the Newseum and the Diversity Institute. The center has offices in the John Seigenthaler Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The center's programs, including the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum, provide education and information to the public and groups including First Amendment scholars and experts, educators, government policymakers, legal experts, and students. The center is n