Category: Exhibits and Events

Mattis Case In 1971, two teenagers—Michael Mattis (age 17) and Tomas Rolf (age 18)—were found in a golf course shed...

LGBTQ+ Equity In 1972, the ACLU of Eastern Missouri’s new executive director, Joyce Armstrong, prioritized building relationships with local gay...

Once again, as I write about the ACLU of Missouri’s history of trying to stop police violence, I do so...

A foundational concept of the ACLU since its founding in 1920 has been a particular attention to rights (especially  free...

Ending Segregated Education Starting in the 1940s, the St. Louis Civil Liberties Committee began working with the local NAACP and...

ACLU-MO in the 1940s In the years before World War II, the St. Louis Civil Liberties Committee was a small...

The St. Louis Civil Liberties Committee began on May 7, 1920, with about a dozen volunteers, both men and women....

In 2017, the Washington University Libraries’ Julian Edison Department of Special Collections and the ACLU of Missouri began preparation for the ACLU’s...

On November 30, 2018, Washington University celebrated Mary Jo Bang–her work as a poet, English professor and artist, and her...

On April 6th Washington University in St. Louis hosted family, friends, colleagues, former students and fans of William H. Gass...

Moderated by Matthias Göritz and Prof. Ignacio Infante, the roundtable discussion featured Stephen Schenkenberg, who edited and published The Ear’s Mouth Must...

In addition to talks addressing William Gass’s roles as reader, translator, and advocate for international writing, the 2016 William H. Gass...