Roger Nash Baldwin (1884-1981) is a known American activist to have founded the American Union for the civil liberties.

Born with Wellesley in the Massachusetts, he studied with the Université Harvard then taught with sociology with the Université of Washington. Influenced by the anarchist Emma Goldman, he joint with the Hard-working industrialists of the world and works in a Juvenile court.

During several decades, he was a large admiror of the Soviet Union, but he withdrew his supports with the Communist regime when the Pacte germano-Soviet was concluded. He contributed then to the movement Pacifiste of post-war period.

Baldwin had defended the American Insoumis which had refused to take part in the First World War. He had been imprisoned during one year as a Conscientious objector and had founded the office of civic freedoms, become later the ACLU.

Director of association, the general MacArthur sent it to Japan to build a structure of defense of the citizens of the nation. With the United States, its organization was associated with plusiers famous lawsuits, of which the Procès of the monkey, the business Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and opposition to the censure of the books of James Joyce.

The president Jimmy Carter gave the to him presidential Médaille of freedom the January 16th 1981. He died on August 26th of the same year.