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Roger Baldwin founder of ACLU dies in New Jersey
Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920 and longtime civil rights advocate, died at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey, at age 86. A leader admired as a defender of constitutional rights, he was honored with the Medal of Freedom in 1980. His life framed as fighting oppression and expanding individual liberty.
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New York Times
New York
Roger Baldwin
American Civil Liberties Union
Valley Hospital
Ridgewood
N.J
Oakland
Carter
Baldwin
Ira Glasser
ACLU
Norman Dorsen
Boston
Roger Nash Baldwin
Joseph L. Rauh Jr
Americans For Democratic Action
Douglas MacArthur
Arthur Garfield Hays
Morris Ernst
Osmond K. Fraenkel
Clarence Darrow
Harvard Overseers
Economics Deents
Industrial Workers of the World
American Political Science Association
International League For the Rights of Man
National Conference of Social Welfare
National Urban League
American League For Peace
Democracy
North American Committee For Spanish Democracy
The
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Inter-American Association For Democracy and Freedom
Friends of the Soviet Union
Americans For Intellectual Freedom
Wellesley
Mass
Frank Fenno Baldwin
Lucy Cushing Nash
Harvard
Europe
Washington University
St. Louis