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....
Race, HIV/AIDS, and Health Care Access in 1980s St. Louis In conjunction with programs at The Griot Museum of Black History, Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis is taking a closer look...
Marching with Pride Pride and St. Louis, 1979 – 2019 Forty years ago, in April 1979, the first organized “Gay Pride” event took...
The ACLU’s Work in Focus: Reflections from an Internship Reflections The history of the ACLU of Missouri is the history of St. Louis – and, as the old saying goes, history...
Reflections on Roger Baldwin and WashU As an intern helping compile the ACLU of Missouri’s history, one of my tasks involved learning more about Roger Nash Baldwin...
LGBTQ History and Black History Month The Zebra Lounge is one of 800+ locations connected to LGBTQ history that are documented online in Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis. In the 1980s...
A Look at LGBTQ+ Periodicals As part of our continued celebration of LGBT History Month this October, we are highlighting a few of the historic...
WWI Collections: Remembering Charles Duncker Jr. Today, October 17, is the 100 year anniversary of the death of Washington University alum Captain Charles Henry Duncker Jr.,...