Category: Local History

Washington University Libraries are proud to host the traveling pop-up exhibit Making History: Kansas City and the Rise of Gay Rights,...

October is LGBTQ History Month, and it’s the perfect opportunity to explore the online tool Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis. The...

In summer 2020, officials from Evanston, Illinois, reached out to local historians and asked for a report compiling evidence of...

In the spring of 2020, as Covid-19 reached pandemic levels, a chart from a modern study of the 1918 influenza...

Do you have photographs, digital art, video, or other documentation of the protests and marches occurring in our communities? This...

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....