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...
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...
Information Privacy and the ACLU-MO Archives Information privacy and access to information — on computers, in government records, by news outlets — is not a new...