Michael Aldridge, a former ACLU director, in an article for the Louisville Courier Journal, wrote "the Kling family 's own personal experience with bigotry, and a shared memory of historic oppression and violence, made them fight all prejudice and restrictions on the civil liberties of others".

Representatives came from a cross section of Louisville's social justice community, and Mayor Harvey I. Sloane afterwards provided the Louisville-Jefferson County Human Relations Commission with funds to hire staff to monitor discrimination against women.

By 1972 the KCLU and the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights both filed a school desegregation lawsuit against the Louisville-Jefferson County Board of Education which led finally to the development of a controversial busing plan in 1975.

As the mother of five children in public schools at that time, Post was seen by the group advised by Robert Sedler (KCLU's volunteer general counsel and tenured law professor at the University of Kentucky) to be the best candidate to serve as the plaintiff.

As part of the 1960s and 70s anti-war movement in Louisville, made famous by the nation's best-known dissident Muhammad Ali, Suzy Post mentored and sheltered soldiers going AWOL, draft protesters and other youth who opposed the war in Vietnam.

[8] As the chair of the KCLU she worked to protect the rights of the protesters, but also at times, along with other radicals like Anne and Carl Braden, broke the law personally by hiding soldiers fleeing from nearby Fort Knox.