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                    <text>Nazis now plan July 4
demonstration in Skokie
By DIANE DUBEY and AL BERNSTEIN
The NATIONAL Socialist (Nazi) party plans to

march in Skokie on July 4.
Plans for the July 4 march at noon in front of the
village hall, 5127 Oakton, were announced by party
spokesman Frank Collin hours after a U.S.
Supreme Court ruling Wednesday, June 15, which lifted an injunction banning the Nazis from marching in
Skokie.
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to lift the injunction,
which had been issued in April by Cook County Circuit
Court Judge Joseph Wosik to prevent a planned May 1
march by the Nazis. When the Southwest Side group
then switched its march date to April 30, Judge Harold
Sullivan hurriedly extended the injunction to cover
that date and any future rallies.
BOTH THE Illinois Appellate and Supreme courts
refused to lift the injunction.
Collin told The LIFE that with the injunction lifted, his group would march on July 4 with a larger
group than the 30 uniformed Nazis, who were turned
away at the border of Skokie on April 30.
He said the July 4 date coincides not only with the
celebration of the United States’ birthday, but also
with his party’s national convention, to be held in Chicago. “We will have delegates from all over the country here, and they will march with us.”
Collin said he was pleased with the Supreme
Court ruling and said his group would march in Skokie
“only to get our right of free speech back. That is the
only reason we will march. We have been denied our
right of free speech.” Collin was referring to laws
passed by the Skokie park district and Skokie village
board designed to keep the Nazis from utilizing public
facilities for a rally and from demonstrating in Skokie.
THREE SKOKIE ordinances passed after the first
Nazi attempt to march, prohibit them from marching,
and those are unaffected by the Supreme Court ruling.
The ordinances prohibit both public demonstrations by
members of political Parties who wear military style
uniforms and distribution of materials that incite
group hatred, in addition to requiring a $350,000 bond
for parades and public assemblies within the village.
Village officials could not be reached for comment
on Wednesday, but it was expected they would use
those ordinances to stop the Nazis from marching. If
the Nazis marched they could be arrested immediately
under the provisions of the ordinances.
The ACLU, acting as the legal counsel for the Nazis, may challenge the three ordinances in court.
Spokesmen for that group have claimed the ordinances
are unconstitutional.
David Hamlin, executive director of the ACLU,
told The LIFE Wednesday he was “unaware” of the
Nazi plans for a July 4 rally. He said, “The village has

only one option, but we have at least two. The village
can’t enforce their ordinances unless the Nazis march
while we (ACLU) could either wait until the Nazis
march or wage an affirmative challenge to the constitutionality of one or more of the ordinances.”
THE NAZIS began their efforts to appear in Skokie
last October with a letter seeking permission to hold a
rally in a Skokie park. The park district passed an ordinance requiring $350,000 bond for them to appear. To
protest that action the Nazis then planned the May 1
march. The village successfully sought an injunction
preventing them from marching, and the Nazis attempted to march on April 30, but were turned back at
the Touhy exit of the Edens expressway with the second extended injunction issued by Judge Sullivan.
Several hundred counter-demonstrators ringed village hall waiting for the Nazis in a charged atmosphere. Many riot-helmeted Skokie police were there
along with National guard reserves on alert.

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&lt;p&gt;For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an &lt;a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info"&gt;email &lt;/a&gt;or call us at 847-673-3733.&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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