Tag: Diversity

In the summer and fall of 2020, a nationwide outpouring of grief and outrage over ongoing violence against Black men...

Banned Books Week is an annual awareness campaign promoted by the American Library Association (ALA) that celebrates the freedom to...

On August 19th HBO Max premiered the documentary special Eyes on the Prize: Hallowed Ground. The new program is directed...

Henry Hampton’s Blackside, Inc. interviewed William O’Neal on April 13, 1989, for Eyes on the Prize: America at the Racial Crossroads...

ArcGIS StoryMaps is a cloud-based platform for creating and sharing digital stories. The Washington University community has access to this...

Gena McClendon, a speaker on our Geography Awareness Week panel about mapping social justice, talked with me about the history...

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...