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Roger Nash Baldwin (January 21, 1884 - August 26, 1981) was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950. Many of the ACLU's original landmark cases took place under his direction, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses.
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Roger Nash Baldwin (born Jan. 21, 1884, Wellesley, Mass., U.S.—died Aug. 26, 1981, Ridgewood, N.J.) was an American civil-rights activist, cofounder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).. Born into an aristocratic Massachusetts family, Baldwin attended Harvard University (B.A., 1904; M.A., 1905). He then taught sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. (1906-09), and ...
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The Roger Nash Baldwin Papers document the life and career of Roger Baldwin (1884-1981), a prominent and active American civil libertarian for almost all of his prodigiously long life. Baldwin is remembered first and foremost as a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. Many of the papers in this collection document his involvement with ...
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Roger Nash Baldwin gave birth to the modern civil liberties movement in the United States. Baldwin was born in 1884 and died in 1991. His entire adult life was a testament to social justice, fundamental fairness, egalitarian politics, and an unflagging belief in the inestimable, inherent dignity of each person.
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