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Roger Baldwin (Roger Nash Baldwin) was born on 21 January, 1884 in Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S., is an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) co-founder. Discover Roger Baldwin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 97 years old?

Popular As Roger Nash Baldwin
Occupation miscellaneous
Age 97 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 21 January 1884
Birthday 21 January
Birthplace Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S.
Date of death 26 August, 1981
Died Place Ridgewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1884

Roger Nash Baldwin (January 21, 1884 – August 26, 1981) was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

1917

After the passage of the Selective Service Act of 1917, Baldwin called for the AUAM to create a legal division to protect the rights of conscientious objectors.

On July 1, 1917, the AUAM created the Civil Liberties Bureau (CLB), headed by Baldwin.

The CLB separated from the AUAM on October 1, 1917, renaming itself the National Civil Liberties Bureau, with Baldwin as director.

1918

In the meantime, on 30 October 1918, as a conscientious objector himself, refusing even to register for the draft, undergo medical examination, or accept any alternative service such as farming, was sentenced at the Federal Court in New York City to a year in a penitentiary.

As director of ACLU, Baldwin was integral to the shape of the association's early character; it was under Baldwin's leadership that the ACLU undertook some of its most famous cases, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses.

1920

In 1920, NCLB was renamed the American Civil Liberties Union, with Baldwin continuing as the ACLU's first executive director.

1927

In 1927, he had visited the Soviet Union and wrote a book, Liberty Under the Soviets.

1940

In the 1940s, Baldwin led the campaign to purge the ACLU of Communist Party members.

1947

In 1947, General Douglas MacArthur invited him to Japan to foster the growth of civil liberties in that country.

In Japan, he founded the Japan Civil Liberties Union, and the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun.

1948

In 1948, Germany and Austria invited him for similar purposes.

1950

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.

Baldwin was a well-known pacifist and author.

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 social worker and became chief probation officer of the St. Louis Juvenile Court.

He also co-wrote Juvenile Courts and Probation with Bernard Flexner at this time; this book became very influential in its era, and was, in part, the foundation of Baldwin's national reputation.

Baldwin was a member of the American Union Against Militarism (AUAM), which opposed American involvement in World War I.

Baldwin retired from the ACLU leadership in 1950.

He remained active in politics for the rest of his life; for example, he co-founded the International League for the Rights of Man, which is now known as the International League for Human Rights.

In St. Louis, Baldwin had been greatly influenced by the radical social movement of the anarchist Emma Goldman.

He joined the Industrial Workers of the World.

Roger Baldwin oversaw, documented and supplied funding for a large number of defense cases for I.W.W. members and investigations throughout the United States.

A fully accessible archive of his correspondence with I.W.W branches, investigators and attorneys has been published by Princeton's Mudd Manuscript Library.

1951

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1951.

1953

Later, however, as more and more information came out about Joseph Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union, Baldwin became more and more disillusioned with communism and in 1953 called it "A NEW SLAVERY" (capitalized in the original).

He condemned "the inhuman communist police state tyranny, forced labor."

1968

In 1968, Washington University awarded Baldwin an honorary doctorate of Laws degree.

1981

President Jimmy Carter awarded Baldwin the Medal of Freedom on January 16, 1981.

A resident of Oakland, New Jersey, Baldwin died of heart failure on August 26, 1981, at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

1982

He is the subject of John G. Avildsen's 1982 documentary Traveling Hopefully.