Roger Baldwin biography

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Roger Baldwin was an American civil rights activist. When the U.S. entered World War I, he headed a pacifist union group which later became the American Civil Liberties Union, representing the likes of James Joyce regarding a ban on Ulysses, as well as Jehovah's Witnesses for free-press rights. He served as the director of the ACLU for 30 years. His work made civil rights a universal cause.