Category: Local History

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....

One of the documents preserved in the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri Records at the Washington University Libraries is this simple...

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

What’s in a Name? At Washington University in St. Louis, a yearly ceremony honors “students, staff and faculty, and St....

In conjunction with programs at The Griot Museum of Black History, Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis is taking a closer look...

Pride and St. Louis, 1979 – 2019 Forty years ago, in April 1979, the first organized “Gay Pride” event took...

Reflections The history of the ACLU of Missouri is the history of St. Louis – and, as the old saying goes, history...