Before the ACLU, Theodore Schroeder
by Merry Helm
February 10, 2020 — “...all support of censorship should be considered as problems of abnormal psychology.” So said Civil Libertarian Albert Theodore Schroeder, who died on this date in 1953. Schroeder was born in Wisconsin in 1864.
During what he called his “Wanderlust Years,” Schroeder sold hats, ran errands, and sold ladies’ lingerie in Chicago. He…