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Roger Nash Baldwin
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) co-founder
This article is about the ACLU leader. For 19th-century American lawyer, see Roger Sherman Baldwin.
Roger Nash Baldwin (January 21, 1884 – August 26, 1981) was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950.[1]
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.[2][3] Baldwin was a well-known pacifist and author.
Life and work
Early years
Baldwin was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the son of Lucy Cushing (Nash) and Frank Fenno Baldwin. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Harvard University; afterwards, he moved to St.
Louis on the advice of Louis D. Brandeis. There he taught sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, worked as a socia