Founded in 1920 by Crystal Eastman, Roger Baldwin and Walter Nelles, the ACLU has over 500, 000 members and has an annual budget over $ 100 million.

Crystal Catherine Eastman ( June 25, 1881 – July 8, 1928 ) was a lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist.

Crystal Eastman was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts on June 25, 1881.

Crystal Eastman was a noted anti-militarist, who helped found the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Crystal Eastman died on July 8, 1928, of nephritis.

* Toward the Great Change: Crystal and Max Eastman on Feminism, Antimilitarism, and Revolution, edited by Blanche Wiesen Cook ( 1976 )

* Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution, edited by Blanche Wiesen Cook ( 1978 )

* Blanche Wiesen Cook, ed., Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution.

* Crystal Eastman Papers Finding Aid, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

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In 1913 he joined the staff of The Masses, edited by Max Eastman and his sister Crystal.

Other notable figures among the Greenwich-Village scene who have been associated with free love include Edna St. Vincent Millay, Max Eastman, Crystal Eastman, Floyd Dell, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Ida Rauh, Hutchins Hapgood, Neith Boyce ; a certain extreme was reached by self-proclaimed Satanist Anton LaVey.

In 1919, he met Crystal and Max Eastman, who produced The Liberator ( where McKay would serve as Co-Executive Editor until 1922 ).

Settling in Greenwich Village with his sister Crystal Eastman, he became involved in a number of political causes, including helping to found the Men's League for Women's Suffrage in 1910.

In 1919, Eastman and his sister Crystal ( who was one of the founders of American Civil Liberties Union ) created a similar publication titled The Liberator.

* Crystal Eastman ( 1881 – 1928 ) American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist and journalist

In 1920, Kellogg joined with Roger Baldwin, Norman Thomas, Crystal Eastman, Addams, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Abraham Muste, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Upton Sinclair to form the American Civil Liberties Union.

* The Liberator ( magazine ) ( 1918 – 24 ), a monthly periodical founded by Max Eastman and his sister Crystal Eastman focusing on radical socialist politics, philosophy, and arts

Unhappy with the way that editors Max and Crystal Eastman and a few others were able to live off the struggling magazine, while he received a nominal fee or worked pro bono, Young left The Liberator in 1919 to start a magazine of his own, Good Morning.

Some seventy investigators, including Elizabeth Beardsley Butler, Margaret Byington, John R. Commons, Edward T. Devine, Crystal Eastman, John A. Fitch, documenatary photographer Lewis Hine, and artist Joseph Stella, began work in 1907.