“Worst Among Housekeepers:” Perspectives on St. Louis and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic In the spring of 2020, as Covid-19 reached pandemic levels, a chart from a modern study of the 1918 influenza...
History Happening Now: St. Louis 2020 Do you have photographs, digital art, video, or other documentation of the protests and marches occurring in our communities? This...
ACLU-MO History Spotlight: Police Use of Deadly Force Mattis Case In 1971, two teenagers—Michael Mattis (age 17) and Tomas Rolf (age 18)—were found in a golf course shed...
ACLU-MO History Spotlight: LGBTQ+ Equity LGBTQ+ Equity In 1972, the ACLU of Eastern Missouri’s new executive director, Joyce Armstrong, prioritized building relationships with local gay...
ACLU-MO History Spotlight: Reforms to End Police Violence Once again, as I write about the ACLU of Missouri’s history of trying to stop police violence, I do so...
ACLU-MO History Spotlight: Liberty in Times of Crisis A foundational concept of the ACLU since its founding in 1920 has been a particular attention to rights (especially free...
ACLU-MO History Spotlight: School Desegregation Ending Segregated Education Starting in the 1940s, the St. Louis Civil Liberties Committee began working with the local NAACP and...
ACLU-MO and Racial Justice: 1940s ACLU-MO in the 1940s In the years before World War II, the St. Louis Civil Liberties Committee was a small...
ACLU-MO Early Years: 1930s The St. Louis Civil Liberties Committee began on May 7, 1920, with about a dozen volunteers, both men and women....
Open to All: The Fight to Desegregate St. Louis Restaurants One of the documents preserved in the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri Records at the Washington University Libraries is this simple...
Reflections on a Centennial In 2017, the Washington University Libraries’ Julian Edison Department of Special Collections and the ACLU of Missouri began preparation for the ACLU’s...
Holobaugh in History What’s in a Name? At Washington University in St. Louis, a yearly ceremony honors “students, staff and faculty, and St....