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Was it the
mayor vs.
the Fonz?
BY DIANE DUBEY
Staff Writer
RICHIE AND the Fonz proved it
once and for all: They are more popular than Mayor Al Smith and a
would-be Harvey Schwartz clone
named Bert Silverman.
So are Laverne and Shirley, who were
presented Nov.
17 in a typically zany halfhour focusing
on Shirley’s
unwilling involvement
with a bank
robber.
And so it
DUBEY
went. Despite
heavy network promotion and an
apparently compelling topic, the
CBS-TV docu-drama “Skokie”
trailed the ABC comedy lineup in the
Chicago metropolitan area, attracting only 28 percent of the viewing audience, according to Nielsen ratings.
REEL LIFE AND REAL LIFE: Actors in full combat attire carried the banner
of the Jewish Defense League for the benefit of cameras filming the TV docudrama “Skokie” (photo at left) while, at right, former LIFE reporter Robert
Feder watches from a second-story window at Skokie Village Hall as crowds
prepare to “greet” a group of neo-Nazis who had announced plans for a demonstration on April 30. 1977. The Nazis only made it as far as the Touhy Avenue
exit on Edens Expressway, however, where they were turned back by police
carrying a temporary injunction against the rally.
JUST OVER 1 million Chicagoarea viewers tuned in to the heavily
hyped 2½-hour film, joining some
24.8 million who watched in other
parts of the country. But, although
the numbers sound impressive, the
film drew only a 24 percent share nationally, attracting more viewers in
the New York City area but fewer in
the Los Angeles area than Chicago’s
28 percent.
Is this surprising? I’m not sure.
To put things in perspective a bit,
the film’s 24-percent share of the
national audience is not very high,
particularly for a highly touted program like “Skokie.” When the net-
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works take a look at the Nielsens to determine which programs they’ll keep
and which should be axed, the breakeven point for an ongoing series is
about 28-29 percent.
If nothing else, examination of these
figures can help us to look honestly at
ourselves. our responses during the
1977-78 period of a threatened Nazi
demonstration, and our assessment of
the film “Skokie.”
NETWORK REQUIREMENTS notwithstanding, 24 percent of a national
viewing audience is a lot of bodies. But
the year and a half during which Skokie was perceived as under siege by
neo-Nazis was was an intense experience, a period during which one issue
took precedence over all others on the
local scene. It was a time when virtual-
ly every week-night and most Saturday
evenings and Sunday afternoons offered at least one panel discussion on
the Nazi threat. Few local residents
didn’t, at one time or another, attend
some meeting or program or rally that
featured a Holocaust survivor speaking
movingly of the losses he suffered at
the hands of the Nazi animals.
SO I’M not sure quite how to judge
the absence of interest on a larger
scale.
Everyone I know tells stories of trips
to other states - or even other countries - with the inevitable punchline of
meeting someone who said. “You’re
from Skokie? Isn’t that where the Nazis want to march?”
At first glance at the ratings, I figured these people had lost interest,
that time had dulled the interest of all
the letter-writers whose correspondence had convinced Skokie’s Mayor Al
Smith that his concerns were shared
by decent people around the world. After giving the matter more thought,
however, I realize that these were the
TV watchers who made up the 24 percent. It is astounding - and upsetting
- but the other 76 percent probably
never gave a damn about Skokie or
Nazis or Holocaust survivors in the
first place.
It’s just that a lot of people really
don’t care. I figured viewers throughout the Chicago area would be glued to
their sets, if only to catch glimpses of
familiar places. Personally, I thought
the most exciting thing about “Skokie”
was seeing the real-life Skokie on TV.
But others apparently didn’t agree.
What it comes down to is that the
Skokie-Nazi years never had the impact many of us thought they had had
outside the Skokie area. In terms of the
lessons of history, this seems regrettable. But on the positive side, nearly 25
million people watched the story of a
community wrenched by the very idea
of a demonstration by those who stand
only for hatred, elitism and murder.
There’s no doubt now that more
Americans would rather watch
“Three’s Company“ and “Too Close
for Comfort” than a retelling of am
emotion-laden incident that could happen in their own communities. But,
putting artistic criticism aside,
“Skokie” drew 25 million viewers who
apparently were willing to forego an
evening of one-liners in exchange for a
show that promised a message.
That’s a start.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Dubey, Diane
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Columnist Diane Dubey discusses the Nielson ratings of the made-for-television movie "Skokie." Includes photograph of actors playing activists in the movie and photograph of actual Skokie demonstrators.
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12/3/1981
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Skokie (Motion picture)
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editorials and opinions
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Village decries
doggedness on Nazis
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
A SCATHING denunciation of the
American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU), calling into question both the
organization’s motives and methods
took place Monday, July 11 at the
Skokie village board meeting.
The dedication and persistance of
the ACLU in fighting for the right of
the National Socialist (Nazi) party to
march in Skokie has angered village
officials, who also attacked David
Goldberger, the ACLU attorney representing the Nazis.
“It’s no longer the case of Skokie
versus the National Socialist party...it’s the village of Skokie versus the
ACLU as far as they are concerned,”
Trustee Morris Topol declared.
“With these people, it’s something
personal-their feathers have been ruffled-they they don’t think it’s right
that they should lose a case,” he went
on. “They won’t accept the decision of
a court unless the U.S. Supreme Court
tells them they have to.”
Topol announced his regret at not
being a contributor to the ACLU-"so
that I could stop.”
He later told The LIFE that he
can’t understand Goldberger’s action
in “running from court to court” before any ruling has been reached.
“They think they have to have a
hearing 10 seconds after filing a petition or a suit...his (Goldberger's) version of the speed of the law is very
different from most peoples'," Topol
said.
Mayor Albert Smith said Monday
he had “always heard the ACLU was
established to defend people’s constitutional rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
"I don't know why the ACLU
doesn't think Skokie citizens have that
right,” Smith said.
Trustee Charles Conrad said he
finds “distasteful” what he sees as the
ACLU’s “lack of trust and confidence
in judicial review and the state court
system.”
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Skokie Village officials criticize American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) defense of National Socialist Party of America (Nazis).
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7/17/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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By DIANE DUBEY
TV movie
will focus
on Skokie’s
Nazi battle
Staff Writer
THE NAZIS are heading
for Skokie
again - this time, on film.
Skokie’s traumatic year-and-a-halflong period of threatened neo-Nazi demonstrations, angry counter-rallies
and prolonged legal battles will be
committed to history formally next
spring when CBS-TV presents a 2½hour docudrama entitled “Skokie.”
Coming nearly three years after the
National Socialist (Nazi) Party of
America dropped plans to rally in
Skokie, the film, scheduled to air as
early as May, will focus on a fictional
family of Holocaust survivors living in
Skokie during the 1977-78 “siege.”
Danny Kaye already has been
signed to play Max Feldman, the Holocaust survivor who lives in Skokie with
his wife and teen-age daughter. Eli
Wallach was signed Tuesday, Oct. 28,
to portray Skokie Corporation Counsel
Harvey Schwartz, according to producer Robert “Buzz” Berger who said he
hopes to snare character actor Ed
Flanders for the role of Mayor Albert
J. Smith.
OTHERS WHOSE roles in the Skokie-Nazi conflict are part of the film include David Hamlin, then executive
director of ‘the Illinois chapter of the
American Civil Liberties Union; David
Goldberger, the ACLU attorney who
defended the Nazis’ First Amendment
rights; Frank Collin, the neo-Nazi leader who now is serving a seven-year prison term for taking indecent liberties
with a child; Skokie resident Sol Goldstein, a Holocaust survivor; Abbott Rosen, executive director of the Chicago
Anti-Defamation League; and Aryeh
Neier, ACLU national executive director from 1970 to 1978.
The script for “Skokie” was written
by Ernest Kinoy, chief script-writer for
“Boots” and writer of the screenplays
for the TV special, “The Henderson
Monster,” and “The Deadliest Season,” a CBS television movie.
Executive producer is Herbert
Brodkin and director is Herbert Wise.
THIS IS basically the story of what
happened in Skokie between 1977 and
THE CAST OF characters in “Skokie,” the made-for TV movie which
will begin filming next month, will read like a local “Who’s Who.”
Among those who will be portrayed are, from left, Skokie Mayor Albert
J. Smith, Corporation Counsel Harvey Schwartz and Sol Goldstein, a
Holocaust survivor. Schwartz, who will be played by Eli Wallach, said
this week he would have preferred either Robert Redford or Burt Reynolds.
1978,” Berger said Tuesday, Oct. 28. and the various people around him.”
Berger said representatives from
“We’ll deal with some of the court cases that came up...with the ACLU’s re- the production company had been in
presentation of Collin, with the reac- contact with all of the people who are
tions of a fictional family or survivors, to be portrayed in the movie - except
and with the reactions of the mayor
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(Continued from page 1)
for Collin.
“We don’t intend to talk to Collin.
He’s a minor character. There’s nothing he could add that would be particularly insightful,” he said.
Shooting is to begin in Skokie on
Friday, Nov. 14 and continue through
mid-December, Berger said. He and
other members of the production company are expected to be in Skokie
Thursday and Friday, Oct. 30 and 31,
to scout local sites for filming and to
sign actors. By Tuesday, Nov. 4, they
will be back “for the duration,” he
said.
The Skokie thing was coming to a
head about that time and it looked like
the Nazis were about to march,” Berger recalled. “There was so much controversy that we knew this would make
a wonderful show.
“There were so many good and
wonderful people on both sides of the
argument, arguing valid points on both
sides and disagreeing all the way.
“There was so much conflict and
the basis of all good drama is conflict....I think this is an important show
to do because it is an example of the
American system working and working
at its best.”
DEVELOPMENT OF “Skokie” has
been in the works for more than two
years, ever since Brodkin and Berger
finished work on “Holocaust,” the NBC
mini-series which focused on the experiences of a German Jewish family under Nazi rule.
SCRIPTS ALREADY have been
sent to the principals who will be represented in the movie, Berger said.
He said several errors were pointed
out by Mayor Smith and, subsequently,
were changed.
‘“We’re not anxious to do a disser-
vice to Skokie or to Mayor Smith,” he
said.
Berger was asked Smith’s reaction
to having the Nazi controversary,
which generally is not considered one
of Skokie’s brightest moments,
dredged up once again.
“I don’t think there’s any way he
can avoid its being done without getting into another First Amendment
case and I think Smith’s a realist,”
said the producer.
Smith could not be reached for comment Tuesday, but Harvey Schwartz
said the mayor’s only concern was that
the community be portrayed fairly.
Schwartz said his own primary concern is avoiding any inconvenience to
the public during the filming. “It’s obvious we’re not going to have much to
say about the content,” he said.
IN KEEPING with network policy
for docudramas, a large number of
names will not be changed for the film,
a fact which isn’t particularly pleasing
to Berger.
While some pseudonyms will be
used - Harvey Schwartz will be transformed into a character called “Burt
Silverman” and David Goldberger will
become “Herb Lewison” - the names
of Rosen, Hamlin, Smith, Neier, Goldstein and Collin will not be changed.
Disturbed that the use of actors attempting to portray real people results
in dramatization, not documentary or
drama, Berger prefers that his movie
be based on “dramatic truth, not historic truth.”
But, since CBS “strongly suggests”
that Skokie remain Skokie, that filming
take place in the village and that as
many characters as possible keep their
real names, Berger said there wnwon’t
be too much guessing about who’s who
when “Skokie” comes to Skokie - and
to the country.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Skokie History
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TV movie will focus on Skokie's Nazi battle
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Dubey, Diane
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Movie producer Robert Berger announces plans for "Skokie" film. Includes photographs of lead "characters" Albert Smith, Harvey Schwartz, and Sol Goldstein.
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10/30/1980
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Skokie (Motion picture)
Berger, Robert "Buzz"
Goldstein, Sol
Schwartz, Harvey
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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eng
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1980s (1980-1989)
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Take a crack at first
Collin trivia contest
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
WHEREAS Frank Collin and his
group of neo-Nazis have chosen not to
demonstrate in Skokie; and whereas I
have been stripped of the most significant single news story of my career;
and whereas I am understandably despondent and despairing; therefore let
it be resolved that I shall not attempt
to provide information or clarify issues, but that this week it well be the
duty of our readers to answer my questions; and that this column shall henceforth be known as the 1st annual Frank
Collin Memorial Trivia Contest; and
that whosoever can answer all of the
following questions shall receive a
guarantee that no uniformed Nazis will
parade down his street unless accompanied by at least 50,000 representa-
tives of the Jewish Federation led by
State Sen. John Nimrod.
l Did anyone really believe that
the Nazis would have the nerve to show
up in Skokie?
l What is the name of the south suburb where Frank’s father lives?
l Does David Goldberger, the Nazi’s ACLU legal counsel, have a bright
future in constitutional law? Does he
have any future?
l Does ANYONE really believe
that 7,000 former concentration camp
inmates live in Skokie? (Ten extra
points to the statistician who answers
that.
l How many picnics were held last
year in Birch park?
l Who is Stu Feiler and why is he
saying all those terrible things about
Buzz Alpert?
l Whatever happened to plans of
the Jewish Federation to introduce a
holocaust studies program throughout
the community and particularily in the
Skokie schools?
l How many of those who planned
to protest in Skokie will care enough
about a Nazi threat to protest in Marquette park?
l Do the people of Skokie owe a big
thank-you to representatives of Aaron
Cushman public relations firm who
claim that they reduced the amount of
publicity on the Nazi conflict by 150%?
Is it really possible that there could
have been any more coverage of this
issue?
l Why did black leader Jesse Jackson wait until the Skokie march was
called off before forming a coalition
against the Nazis with Skokie Jewish
groups?
l Why didn’t Meir Kahane and
Bonnie Pechter come to Skokie at the
same time so we could figure out what
was going on between them?
l Why did the Rev. Tom O’Connor
rip off his Skokie Spirit button when
village officials were unable to cancel
the Sunday Nazi march which he
claimed would have interfered with his
freedom of worship?
l With so many people commenting
on a new unity among Jews, have area
synagogs registered any significant
increase in membership?
l How many of his angry critics
have ever met ACLU Executive Director Dave Hamlin?
l What was the favority topic for
program chairman of Jewish organizations this past year? How many forums on Nazism were held in the area? How many different angles on the
issue were developed?
l Is Skokie’s trouble with the Nazis
really over?
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
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Smith wins praise for Nazi stance
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
Skokie Mayor Albert Smith was honored Wednesday, Sept. 28, by Temple
Beth Israel "for his courageous fight
against...prejudice and the menace of
hate groups which threaten to destroy
our American way of life."
Presented by Sid Kreiman, president of the temple's brotherhood, the
brotherhood's annual merit award recognized Smith's "yeoman efforts which
have drawn the admiration and applause of freedom-loving people both
nationally and abroad."
"He has guided the community
against the insidious efforts of a NeoNazi group attempting to create physical confrontations which may have resulted in explosive and tragic
incidents," Kreiman continued.
Smith was introduced by State Sen.
Howard Carroll (D-15) who read letters
of praise for the mayor's actions from
Judge Seymour Simon and Chicago
Cong. Frank Annunzio who were unable to attend.
Currently serving his fourth term as
mayor of the largely-Jewish suburb,
Smith has staunchly defended the village against the threatened marches
and demonstrations by the National Socialist (Nazi) Party of America, a
small neo-Nazi organization based in
southwest Chicago's Marquette Park
area.
Threatened Nazi marches on both
May 1 and July 4 were pre-empted by
court action.
THE VILLAGE is currently engaged in two lawsuits filed by the
American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) on behalf of the Nazis, both
charging that the village is violating
the Nazi's first amendment rights to
free speech. An ACLU motion now before the Illinois Supreme Court seeks
to overturn an appellate court decision
banning the swastika from the streets
of Skokie. Awaiting action in Federal
District court is an ACLU lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of three
Skokie ordinances which prohibit both
marches by persons wearing militarystyle uniforms and the distribution of
materials which incite group hatred,
and requiring any group seeking a
march permit to post a $350,000 insurance bond.
Of the insurance requirement,
which the ACLU calls discriminatory,
Smith said "Insurance is obtainable
but not by a bunch of thugs and hoodlums. I'm sure it's not available to Nazis—no business is stupid enough to run
that risk and no communtiy is so stupid to want that kind of risk."
Smith called the Nazi threat "a village-wide problem" and indicated that
he looks to the courts for the answers.
"THEY (THE ACLU) sue and we
defend and so far we're staying ahead
of them...but once the thugs come to
our town, I don't know the answers" he
said.
Smith has previously acknowledged
that a Nazi march would merely invite
violence, particularly from Skokie's
7,000 residents who are survivors of
Nazi concentration camps, and he has
indicated his distress at the idea of
"seeing our police arresting our own
citizens."
Skokie's non-Jewish residents have
been supportive of the village's efforts
in fighting the Nazis—"they feel terrible that this is happening to their
neighbors and friends," Smith said.
"For every citizen who has criticized
our position, another hundred or twohundred have said, 'Hang in there, Mayor.' "
Just as Smith has gained recognition all over the United States and in
other parts of the world (he recently
received a letter from Tiperrary, Ireland telling him to "keep up the good
work"), another figure has gained
even more attention and Smith is
greatly bothered by this.
The man is Frank Collin, leader of
the small Marquette Park Nazi group,
"a punk, a lousy bigot" whose rise to
notoriety Smith calls "a defeat for
good people."
"IF THERE is something to truly
regret in this situation, it is that a man
of little talent, little background, and
no achievement has gained national
recognition, international publicity,
and a certain amount of stature,"
Smith said recently of Collin.
Smith told the 150 people assembled
at Temple Beth Israel's Skokie branch,
Howard and Crawford, that the Nazi
threat in Skokie is part of-an international movement of hatred and bigotry
against the Jews which received its
most recent boost in the form ^f Ohe
1975 United Nations resolution declaring that "Zionism is Racism."
"Hatred is the lethal weapon which
killed 12 million people in our own
time...and everywhere we see evidence
of a neo-Hitler cult," he said.
"And the U.N.—what a place to kick
off a new war against the Jews," he
exclaimed.
Smith called hatred the one weapon
which could most hurt world Jewry
and ultimately lead to the downfall of
the state of Israel. And he called Israel
"critical to the survival of the Jewish
people."
"If Israel should fall, I don't see
how the Jewish people throughout the
world would maintain their identity,"
he said.
BECAUSE OF HIS concern over
Israel's survival against threats from
Communist, Arab, and third world
countries, Smith last year accepted the
founding chairmanship of Friends For
Israel, a group organized to enlist
Christian support for the American
Zionist cause.
At the time of the U.N. resolution,
Smith said he was "shocked by the
hateful act against people who have
championed the cause of democracy
and justice."
He has since defended the village's
position regarding the Nazis before
organizations ranging from the AntiDefamation League to the American
nd from local synagogues to
tu-2 Skokie Rotary.
For his overall support of the Jewish community, Smith has received
honors and awards from the Janusc
Korczak Lodge of B'nai B'rith, the
State of Israel Bonds organization,
Hadassah, the Skokie Jewish War Veterans, and the Chicago chapter of Magen David Adorn.
CITED "FOR HIS COURAGEOUS fight against prejudice" was Skokie Mayor
Albert Smith (2d from right) who was presented the Temple Beth Israel
brotherhood's merit award Wednesday, Sept. 28. With him are (from left) State
Sen. Howard Carroll, Sid Kreiman, president of the temple brotherhood, and
Rabbi Ernst Lorge.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Smith wins praise for Nazi stance
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Newspaper article describes the various honors Mayor Smith had received for his efforts to prevent the National Socialist (Nazi) Party from marching in Skokie. What measures have been taken to prevent the march are discussed, as well as the ACLU's lawsuits on behalf of the party. Mayor Smith's opinions of what would happen if the march occurred, as well as of the neo-Nazi Leader, Frank Collin are presented.
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10/2/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America -- Public opinion
American Civil Liberties Union
Illinois -- General Assembly
Illinois -- Politics and government
Synagogues -- Illinois
Holocaust survivors
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Skokie under order to issue permit
Collin offers to move march to South Side
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
SKOKIE - As village officials
faced a Thursday, May 25, deadline for
issuing a parade permit to him, Nazi
leader Frank Collin claimed he would
drop his Skokie march plans if allowed
to demonstrate elsewhere.
Harvey Schwartz, Skokie corporation counsel, said Tuesday, May 23,
that the village would not respond to
Collin’s offer because the proposal
calls for action by the courts and the
Chicago park district.
“Of course we are interested in
seeing what happens,” Schwartz said.
Collin said he may be willing to
drop his plans to demonstrate in Skokie
on June 25, if state and local leaders
meet his demands relating to free
speech and assembly rights. His Mar-
quette Park-based organization has
been unable to hold rallies in Chicago
parks because of an insurance bond requirement.
ANOTHER CONDITION of Collin’s
offer is that legislators not pass two
bills currently pending before the
house which would prevent a Nazi
march.
Throughout the one and a half years
since Collin first applied to the Skokie
park district for a permit, he has said
that a demonstration in Skokie would
dramatize the issue of free speech for
the “White Power” movement.
Collin’s latest statement came only
one day after a federal appeals court
affirmed a lower court decision striking down three Skokie ordinances
passed May 2, 1977.
The ordinances require a $350,000
insurance bond from any group wishing to congregate in the village and
prohibit both the wearing of militarystyle uniforms by members of political
parties and the distribution of materials which incite group hatred.
THE THREE-JUDGE panel of Wilbur Pell Jr., Harlington Wood Jr., and
Robert Sprecher concurred on the first
amendment violation posed by the second and third ordinances, but Sprecher
maintained that the insurance bond
requirement was not an abridgement
of freedom of speech.
After hearing the decision, Skokie
Mayor Albert Smith announced that
village attorneys are preparing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme court. The
village also will petition the court to
stay the lower court decision pending
its own examination of the case.
“We will work to thwart this march
until all of our avenues are closed,”
Smith said.
David Hamlin, executive director of
the American Civil Liberties union
(ACLU) which is defending the Nazis,
called Monday’s decision a “significant
interim step, but by no means the end
of the controversy.
“I DON’T KNOW where the end of
this thing is, but perhaps in the not too
distant future, Skokie will see that the
principles of their legal argument are
not serving them,” he said.
Hamlin refused to speculate on any
possible future maneuverings between
the ACLU and Skokie attorneys, but
said, “At some point the courts will be-
gin to look with enormous displeasure
at attempts to circumvent what the
law obviously states, They will say the
law is not being served by repeated attempts to evade it.”
Skokie was given until Thursday,
May 25, to answer Nazi requests for a
permit for a June 25 march. Early this
week Schwartz said village attorneys
were “still deciding. Whatever we do is
academic. We are under order not to
interfere with their (the court’s) deci-
sion. It’s a matter of complying with
Decker’s decision,” Schwartz said.
“I see no reasons for denial as the
law now stands,” Hamlin said. “On a
first reading (of the appeals court decision), I don’t know how they could do
other than to issue the permit and revoke it later if they can.
“If I were in Skokie and wanted not
to issue the permit, I don’t know what
I’d do,” Hamlin said.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie under order to issue permit : Collin offers to move march to South Side
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Frank Collin, leader of the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis), offers conditions for moving the site of his proposed demonstration. Skokie ordinances are struck down.
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5/25/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Skokie petitions high
court for Nazi ruling
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
THE U.S. Supreme Court will be
asked to avert the proposed June 25
Nazi march in Skokie.
Harvey Schwartz, Skokie corporation counsel, announced Monday, June
5, that his office is preparing a petition
requesting that the high court stay a
lower court ruling that the march is
within the Nazis’ constitutional rights.
Another village request to the Supreme Court, filed Monday, asked the
court to overturn a May 22 appellate
court decision that Skokie’s three ordinances banning the march are unconstitutional.
Skokie’s request for a Supreme
Court stay follows the denial of a similar request by a three-judge federal appellate court panel on June 5.
Judges Wilbur Pell Jr. and Harlington Wood Jr., voted to deny the stay,
while Judge Robert Sprecher favored
the village’s request. The three judges
are the some ones who last month upheld a Feb. 23 decision by U.S. District
Court Judge Bernard Decker that the
three ordinances are illegal.
SKOKIE’S ORDINANCES, approved May 2, 1977, require a $350,000
insurance bond from any group wishing to assemble in the village and prohibit both the wearing of military-style
uniforms by members of political parties and distribution of materials which
incite group hatred.
All three appellate court judges
maintained that the second and third
ordinances violated first amendment
guarantees of free speech, but Sprecher argued that the insurance bond requirement is not an abridgement of
free speech.
On May 26, four days after the appeals court decision, a permit for a
June 25 demonstration in front of Skokie village hall was mailed to the National Socialist (Nazi) Party of
America.
A second permit was issued to the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Chicago, which is trying to attract 50,000 people from across the country for
a counterdemonstration.
SKOKIE’S BATTLE with the Nazis
and with their legal defenders, the
American Civil Liberties union
(ACLU) has reached every level of the
A committee of the Illinois house rejects legislative efforts to block the
Nazi march in Skokie. See page 3.
local, state, and federal court systems.
Skokie attorneys have argued that
the Nazis will be violating the rights of
Skokie residents -specifically the
large number of Holocaust survivors
who live in the village-by holding a
uniformed march and displaying swastikas.
The ACLU, however, has maintained that those who are likely to suffer severe psychological harm from
viewing a Nazi demonstration on the
streets of Skokie are free to stay away
from the site of the march.
Both village and ACLU attorneys
have said that they will continue to exhaust all legal options to win for their
respective positions.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie petitions high court for Nazi ruling
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Harvey Schwartz will petition the United States Supreme Court to avert a proposed National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) march in Skokie on June 25, 1978.
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6/8/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Sprecher, Robert
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‘Skokie’
not fiction
or reality
By DIANE DUBEY
Staff Writer
IN TRYING to please all of the
people all of the time, makers of
“Skokie,” the CBS-TV docudrama
scheduled to air Tuesday, Nov. 17,
have ended up without the emotional
impact that
should be
evoked by a
retelling of a
neo-Nazi
group’s attempt to demonstrate in
Skokie a few
years ago.
Perhaps it is
the designation
“docudrama”
DUBEY
that results in
a film that looks at the Nazi issue
from all perspectives - those of the
village, the Holocaust survivors, the
American Civil Liberties Union and
even neo-Nazi leader Frank Collin.
But if the docudrama technique
mandates evenhandedness in presenting the viewpoints of all the
characters involved, then this technique also prevents the viewer from
relating deeply to any one character
and from feeling the frenzy that
gripped an entire village.
TO HIS CREDIT, it must be said
that “Skokie” producer Robert
“Buzz” Berger, while shooting the
movie, said he was uncomfortable
with the docudrama format that
forced him to have actors portray
real people in what almost becomes
a documentary. At that time, Berger
said he preferred making a film
based on “dramatic truth, not historic truth.”
Unfortunately, CBS officials had
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�IF you wan t no vio lenc e,
keep the Nazis out: That
is th e me s sa ge of Max
Feldman
(pl ay ed by
Dann y Ka ye ), a ' Sk ok ie '
character dr awn f ro m
several re al Ho lo ca u st
survivor s in th e vi lla ge.
‘Skokie’ screens out the emotion
(Continued from page 1)
the last word, and “Skokie” turned
out to be neither fish nor fowl, neither
gripping drama nor pointed documentary. What remains is a made-for-TV
chronicle, a didactic 2½-hour film that
may lose many viewers along the way,
while annoying those familiar enough
with the real thing to know where the
docudrama departs from the reality it
purports to present.
There is a certain thrill in seeing
parts of Skokie and other local sights
on film, but the authenticity of the setting supposedly sets the stage for authenticity of characterization, dialogue
and events, too. A fictionalized account
wouldn’t be faulted for departing from
the history books, but “Skokie” will.
SO, WHILE outsiders may be bored
by some of the legal technicalities conscientiously included to mark the progress of the ACLU vs. Skokie
courtroom battles, those who know
Skokie will pick up on the demeanor of actor Ed Flanders, playing
“Mayor Smith,” but coming across
without the concerned, soft-spoken
warmth of the real Al Smith. The village attorney, played by Eli Wallach,
isn’t called Harvey Schwartz, but we
all know he’s supposed to be Harvey
Schwartz. Why, then, hasn’t he incorporated the quiet, humorous manner of
the real Harvey Schwartz? And why
doesn’t the Flanders-Wallach combination try to approximate the interaction
Those who know Skokie will pick up
on the demeanor of actor Ed Flanders,
playing ‘Mayor Smith,’ but coming across without the concerned, soft-spoken
warmth of the real Al Smith.
that is integral to what Skokie buffs refer to as the “Mayor and Harvey
Show”?
Individually, the deviations from
reality are trivial; taken together, they
add up to 2½ hours of cognitive dissonance for the local resident who spent
1977-78 watching the drama unfold.
Why is Nazi Frank Collin, a small,
dark rat-faced man with a bad complexion, played by George Dzundza, a
hefty, round-faced blond who looks like
he’d be more comfortable sitting in
front of the TV with a can of beer than
driving to Skokie for an afternoon of
violence?
MOREOVER, WHY is Collin cast as
such a bland character that a viewer
can almost feel sorry for him when he
and his storm-troopers are turned back
by police enforcing a temporary injunction of the demonstration? Why is
a significant scene between Holocaust
survivor Max Feldman (played by
Danny Kaye) and his teen-age daughter based on the premise that he’d
miss an anti-Nazi rally if he had to
drive her “all the way to Lincoln-
wood”?
Some of the more believable scenes
are those involving ACLU director
David Hamlin ( James Sutorius) and
ACLU attorney David Goldberger
(John Rubenstein), accurately portraying the dilemma of those who love the
First Amendment but hate Nazis. Interesting, although perhaps overdramatized, is the reaction of Feldman’s
wife, Bertha (played by Kim Hunter),
a Holocaust survivor who takes threats
of a Nazi march in Skokie as proof that
“it can happen here.”
“I WANT TO GO,” a hysterical Bertha Feldman tells her husband. But she
has nowhere to go, and Max replies,
"We stay, let them go. This time is
different.”
Admittedly, “Skokie” has several
such touching moments, but it is an overly ambitious project, and thus suffers from lack of focus. Though
offering a star-studded cast, the film’s
lack of perspective plays these personalities off against one another, minimizing their individual effectiveness.
Comment
Both the docu-drama technique and
its resulting balanced approach left
“Skokie” with less impact than the Lou
Grant episode that was based-very
loosely-on the attempted Nazi demonstration in Skokie. If the writers director and producer of "Skokie" had
chosen to make a statement, rather
than film with reporter-like objectivity,
their docu-drama could have been a
very powerful TV movie. Certainly,
they had an obligation to be fair to all
sides, but they weren't required to
abide by the equal-time doctrine. Unfortunately, they did.
Speculation has focused on whether
the Skokie-Nazi affair ultimately will
be remembered in the real or film versions. That concern no longer is viable.
“Skokie” will provide an evening of
fun for area residents eager to nitpick,
and will offer generally accurate information to those interested in learning
the sequence of events surrounding the
march that never was.
But for all its general historic accuracy, “Skokie” is devoid of the emotional pitch that ran so high for almost
two years. Orchestrated crowd scenes
and corny shots of Jewish Defense
League members dancing the "hora"
don’t reflect the unpredictable spontaneity that prevailed throughout the
entire episode.
“Skokie” isn’t Skokie.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Skokie History
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'Skokie' not fiction or reality/'Skokie' screens out the emotion
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Dubey, Diane
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Review of made-for-television movie "Skokie" about the National Socialist Party of America's (Nazi's) attempt to demonstrate in Skokie in 1977 and 1978. Includes photograph of Danny Kaye.
Date
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11/5/1981
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Skokie (Motion picture)
Kaye, Danny
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Skokie Life, Thursday, November 5, 1981, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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eng
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1980s (1980-1989)
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editorials and opinions
newspaper clippings
skokie movie
tv movie
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'Skokie' gets
mixed review
By DIANE DUBEY
Staff Writer
SPEAKING WITHOUT the self-consciousness of the officials portrayed in
the CBS docudrama “Skokie,” three
village trustees whose roles weren’t
included in the film gave it mixed reviews nonetheless.
Jackie Gorell charcterized the movie, to be aired Tuesday, Nov. 17, as
“too long” and “repetitious.” Although
the film-makers apparently tried to
present all viewpoints, she said, someone familiar with Skokie would find
the movie “very distracting.”
Gorell objected to the portrayal of
the people she knows well: “Eli Wallach was too intense (to play) Harvey
Schwartz - but who knows that except
people who know Harvey Schwartz?”
BUT THE portrayal of Skokie Police
Chief Kenneth Chamberlain in the
character of the fictional Chief Buchanan annoyed her the most.
“Chief Chamberlain is not the typical
hard-nosed, loud-mouth cop,” she said.
“He’s polite and soft-spoken.”
Proximity to the leading characters
created distractions for the other trustees, also.
Saying the film was “too long and
dragged in the middle,” Frank M C Cabe said the problem “comes when
you try to combine fact and fiction.
“People who don’t know people will
say it’s fine,” he said, calling “Skokie”
an “overall fairly accurate representation of the way I remember things happening.”
Manly Croft agreed that “certain
things don’t ring true,” but attributed
this departure from fact to the fact the
film is a docu-drama, not a documentary.
"I GENERALLY thought the movie
was pretty good, patricularly in handling the emotional issues concerning
the survivors,” he said.
Skokie’s Corporation Counsel Harvey
Schwartz, possibly the only person who
didn’t assume the village attorney in
“Skokie” was supposed to be Harvey
Schwartz, said he “didn’t inject (his)
ego into this.
“It isn’t me, the characters don’t
correlate,” he said. “It doesn’t portray
my relationship with (Mayor) Al Smith
or, for that matter, it wasn’t even entirely correct on the legal issues Skokie
was asserting.”
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Skokie' gets mixed review
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Dubey, Diane
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Three Skokie Village trustees give their opinions on the made-for-television move "Skokie."
Date
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11/15/1981
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Skokie (Motion picture)
Croft, Manley
Gorrell, Jacqueline
McCabe, Frank
Schwartz, Harvey
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Skokie Life, Sunday, November 15, 1981, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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eng
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1980s (1980-1989)
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editorials and opinions
newspaper clippings
skokie movie
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Skokie battles on in court
Nazis p Ian April 20 Skokie march
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
l Long legal war lies ahead. Charles
Mouratides’ column. See page 4
l Editorial-American freedom will
win over Nazi hatred. See Page 4
SKOKIE-Members of the National
Socialist (Nazi) Party of America plan
to march in Skokie on April 20-with
the law on their side.
The last substantial barrier to a Natative date of the first legal appearzi march was removed Thursday, Feb.
ance of the small southwest Chicago
23, when U.S. District Court Judge BerNazi group in Skokie, according to
nard Decker found unconstitutional
their spokesman, Michael Whalen.
three village ordinances which have
“We will continue to picket Skokie city
helped to avert such a demonstration
hall at our own whim until we get the
during the past 10 months,
right to speak everywhere unchallenged,” he said. Whalen said the NaAnd, although village officials indizis will carry signs demanding “Free
cated Thursday that they plan to ap
peal the decision, it is unlikely that
speech for white power” and possibly a
further legal action can prevent the
few others claiming that “Communism
is Jewish.”
march, according to David Hamlin, executive director of the American Civil
DECKER’S RULING overturned
Liberties Union (ACLU), which has
the ordinances, passed last May 2,
represented the Nazis in their efforts to
which require groups wising to demonstrate in Skokie to secure a $35O,OOO inparade in Skokie.
surance bond, and prohibit both the
April 20, the 89th anniversary of the
birth of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, is ten- wearing of military style uniforms by
members of political parties and the
distribution of materials which incite
group hatred.
Noting “the very grave danger
posed by public dissemination of doctrines of racial and religious hatred,”
Decker nonetheless maintained that
“It is better to allow those who preach
racial hate to expend their venom in
rhetoric than to be panicked into embarking on the dangerous course of
permitting the government to decide
what its citizens may say and hear.”
In a prepared statement distributed
at a press conference Thursday afternoon Skokie Mayor Albert Smith said
the village “will ask the courts to forestall any demonstration pending the
outcome of our appeal.”
CLAIMING THAT “Today’s decision ignores the First Amendment
rights of thousands in favor of the alleged rights of a few,” Smith repeated
his well-known stance that Nazism
does not deserve constitutional protections because it “Preaches hatred and
violence because of a person’s race or
national origin.”
According to Smith, the Nazi threat
during the past year has actually
created “an unprecedented unity of opinion among all of our residents, regardless of religious belief” which he
likened to the unity of spirit among the
founding fathers of the United States.
Ask to comment on the offer of Gov.
James Thompson to lead a counter-demonstration in Skokie on the day the
Nazis march, Smith said he is “happy
to have all the support I can get.” He
agreed with Thompson’s statement
that the neo-Nazi threat to the village
is “a moral outrage,” but added that
at present, no counter-demonstration is
being planned.
ADMITTING THAT his group is using the village for leverage in a sort of
Nazi free speech movement, Whalen
said their actual goal is to be premitted to rally in the areas where they already claim support-Marquette Park
and the south and northwest sides of
Chicago. Until that time, he said, “We
will continue to agitate in Skokie.”
According
Whalen, his organization’s national convention will be held
March 11 in St. Louis where rallies will
be held as a “warm-up for Skokie.”
Offering the ACLU position on
Decker’s decision, Hamlin said “To the
extent that the First Amendment has
been reaffirmed, we are gratified.
“I THINK THAT the First Amend-
ment all but dictated the response the
court handed down-if it doesn’t protect Frank Collin (Nazi leader) it protects no one ” he said
Hamlin said no significant legal obstacles stand in the way of a Nazi
march in Skokie, although a march
cannot be held immediately because of
a legal technicality regarding a Jan. 27
decision of the Illinois Supreme Court.
In that ruling, the court overturned a
swastika ban, but no appeal has been
filed yet by the village or by the AntiDefamation League of the B’nai B’rith
which was involved in a related suit.
According to Hamlin, the Nazis
could be prevented from marching during the appeal process only if the village requested and received a stay of
Decker’s ruling or “yet another injunction.”
“Weighing the evidence in this case
alone makes it highly unlikely that the
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Nazis planning
Skokie march
(Continued from page 1)
demonstration would be prevented with
another court order,” he said.
If the Nazis make it to Skokie on
April 20, members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) say they will be
there also. Calling Decker’s ruling
“typical of the lack of responsibility
that the court system has shown...to
the holocaust survivors,” JDL spokesman Buzz Alpert stressed the need “to
come forward and make a stand as we
should have 40 years ago and maybe
we shall never have to make a stand
again.” Refusing to be more specific
Alpert said “We’ll be there, that’s all.”
SKOKIE BECAME a target of the
Nazis in December, 1976, when they
were not issued a rally permit by the
Skokie park district. They planned a
number of demonstrations in front of
Skokie village hall to protest the action
taken by the park district, but these
events were averted by Cook County
Circuit court injunctions and later by
the three ordinances. Decker’s ruling
is the most recent in a series of legal
battles which have reached both the Il- IIlinois and United States Supreme
Courts.
�THIS WAS THE SCENE Thursday at Skokie village hall, as Mayor Albert Smith
faced the media to explain what Skokie’s next move will be in the battle to k e e p
the Nazis out of Skokie.
S K O K I E MAYOR ALBERT Smith showed the determination of Skokie
to keep the Nazi march from taking place in Skokie. Smith told a
Thursday press conference that Skokie would appeal its latest court
setback.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie battles on in court : Nazis plan April 20 Skokie march
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Dubey, Diane
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Judge Bernard Decker finds Skokie Village ordinances unconstitutional, National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) plan march, and Village plans to appeal decision. Includes photograph of Mayor Albert Smith and interior of Skokie Village Hall.
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2/26/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Skokie Life, Sunday, February 26, 1978, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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Schwartz: If Nazis come we’ll arrest them
DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
THIS WEEK’s United States Supreme court decision has not paved the
way for a Nazi demonstration in Skokie, according to Harvey Schwartz,
Skokie corporation counsel.
Schwartz called Nazi plans to
march in the village July 4 “a grab for
publicity” and said that “if Collin
(Chicago-area Nazi leader Frank Collin) wants to parade in Skokie on the
basis he’s said, he’s going to violate
our ordinances and we’re going to arrest him.”
In the 5-4 decision handed down
June 15, the Supreme court lifted the
injunction issued in April by Cook
County Circuit Court Judge Joseph Wosik to prevent a planned May 1 march
by the Nazis. An extension of this injunction by Judge Harold Sullivan has
prevented the National Socialist (Nazi)
party from rallying in Skokie on another date.
“The basic issue at stake is that this
decision has no effect on Collin’s
marching-that is governed by our ordinances, not by Supreme court order,” Schwartz told The LIFE
Thursday, June 16, referring to three
ordinances passed by Skokie’s village
board May 2 to avoid further threats of
Nazi demonstrations.
THE VILLAGE ordinances, similar
in content to a Skokie park district ordinance adopted last October, required
$350,000 in liability insurance from any
group of 50 or more persons wishing to
hold a parade or public assembly. The
ordinances also prohibit public demonstrations by members of political par-
ties wearing military-style uniforms
and forbid the distribution of materials
which incite group hatred.
Collin has admitted to The LIFE
that it is virtually impossible for his
group to obtain the necessary insurance.
“If he (Collin) wants to test the ordinances, he doesn’t have to violate
them,” Schwartz said. “At this point
talk of a July 4 march is nothing but a
publicity stunt.”
After the Supreme court lifted the
injunction Wednesday, Collin told The
LIFE that Nazi delegates from all over
the country will march in Skokie on
July 4 with their Chicago-area counterparts.
Schwartz said it is “premature” to
discuss whether the village will seek
an injunction preventing the July 4
march, although he admitted that this
is a possibility.
DAVID HAMLIN, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is representing the
Nazis, said that deliberately violating
the ordinances is a valid way to test
their constitutionality.
“The village has only one option but
we have at least two,” Hamlin said after hearing the Supreme court decision.
He explained that ACLU lawyers can
wait until the Nazis demonstrate and
get arrested or they may choose to
“wage an affirmative challenge to the
constitutionality of one or more of the
ordinances.”
Both Schwartz and Hamlin called
the Supreme Court decision “important
and significant” although, to Schwartz,
it was “not a matter the Supreme
court should take jurisdiction of.”
“It is important and significant insofar as what was decided, but the decision is very limited in scope, very
narrow,” Schwartz said.
“In effect, the Supreme court said
to Illinois that where there is a first
amendment rights issue and an injunction has been issued for any purpose,
there are two choices: to give the person a speedy hearing or to lift the injunction during the normal appeal
process. . . In this case the Supreme
court lifted the injunction because
there was no speedy process,”
Schwartz explained. He added, "I can
live with that.”
BOTH THE ILLINOIS Appellate
court and the Illinois supreme court
have refused, within recent weeks, either to overturn the injunction or to
hold a trial on the merits of the case.
“It could take a year before the
courts rule on the merits of the injunction or the validity of the ordinances,”
Schwartz said.
Hamlin, however, sees the decision
as “a significant statement about first
amendment protections. . . terribly
important law beyond its impact for
Skokie.”
Since the Nixon years, the pattern
has been for constitutional disputes
with governments to be turned back to
the state courts, he said, explaining
that this decision “requires state
courts to respond affirmatively to constitutional issues.”
“What the Supreme court is saying
is ‘We expect state courts to move,’ ”
Hamlin said.
Skokie, a community with a majority of Jewish residents, is home to as
many as 7,000 Jewish survivors of the
holocaust in Europe during World War
II.
To avoid confrontation between residents and marchers in the event of a
Nazi demonstration, village officials
will “have adequate personnel on hand
to enforce the ordinances,” said John
Matzer, village manager.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Schwartz: If Nazis come we'll arrest them
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Dubey, Diane
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Village corporate counsel threatens to arrest National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) demonstrators. Recent court cases are summarized.
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6/19/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Skokie Life, Sunday, June 19, 1977, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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swastika
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
UNITED STATES Supreme Court Justice John
Stevens “rightfully decided” to uphold a lower court
ban on the display of swastikas by members of the National Socialist (Nazi) party who want to march in
Skokie, according to Harvey Schwartz, the village’s
corporation counsel.
But David Hamlin, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the organization
providing legal counsel to the Nazi, told The LIFE he
is “not pleased” although he maintains “the case is
still alive and we intend to continue litigating.”
Stevens, acting as justice of the 7th circuit during
the high court’s summer recess, Aug. 26 denied the
ACLU petition to overturn the swastika ban which was
upheld in July by a three-judge panel of the Illlnois Appellate court.
In their motion, ACLU attorneys had asked Stevens to lift the ban pending appeal to the Illlnois Supreme court. That hearing has subsequently been
scheduled for Sept. 20.
In his decision, Stevens essentially agreed with
Schwartz’s argument that “the Nazis have already
gotten and are getting all of the speedy review they
are entitled to” and that the Illinois courts have proceeded “as expeditiously as humanly possible.”
SCHWARTZ ALSO maintained that a temporary
lifting of the swastika ban “would be tantamount to
having Stevens decide on the merits of the case.“’
“Once a demonstration takes place, what is there
to decide?” Schwartz asked. “They (the Nazis) only
want to come once-after that, it’s a moot issue.”
Hamlin said the ACLU position has not been weakened by the Stevens decision “Because it was a procedural question. . .he wasn’t ruling on the merits.”
According to Schwartz, the village on Aug. 26 received official notice of a suit filed in federal district
court by the ACLU which seeks to overturn three Skokie ordinances passed in May to prevent a Nazi demonstration in the village.
In addition to requiring a $350,000 insurance bond
from any group interested in marching in Skokie, the
ordinances prohibit both the demonstrations by individuals wearing military-style uniforms and the distribution of any material which incites group hatred.
Village attorneys must respond to the suit within
20 days, Schwartz said.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Schwartz praises swastika ban
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Dubey, Diane
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Ban on the display of swastikas is upheld.
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9/1/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Skokie Life, Thursday, September 1, 1977, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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Plan counterdemonstration
Nazi group given permit to march
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
SKOKIE- Village officials have issued a permit allowing a Nazi group to
demonstrate in front of village hall at 3
p.m. Sunday, June 25.
A second permit allowing the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
to stage a counterdemonstration at the
same time and place also will be issued, according to Mayor Albert
Smith.
The village mailed a permit to the
National Socialist (Nazi) Party of
America Friday, May 26, four days after a U.S. appeals court ruled unconstitutional three village ordinances
designed to prevent the march. The
permit, however, can still be rescinded
by judicial or legislative action.
Then, after an executive session fol-
lowing the regular village board meeting Tuesday, May 30, Smith announced
that a permit for a counterdemonstration would be issued to the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
PRIOR TO THE board’s unanimous
decision to allow the counterdemonstration, Sol Goldstein, a Holocaust
survivor, told the LIFE, “I hope we get
the permit tonight--otherwise, we’ll
lose control and there will be chaos,
wildness. People will come anyway
and only an organized demonstration
will solve the problem.”
Goldstein, chairman of the federation’s public affairs committee, said he
expects about 50,000 people from across the country to participate in the
counterdemonstration. According to
Goldstein, leaders of the anti-Nazi
group will “do our utmost to control”
those who show up. “To resist Nazis
means that we must be committed
against violence also,” he said.
After more than a year of legal battles in state and federal courts, the village has nearly exhausted its legal
options. Only two possibilities for averting the June 25 march still remain.
Village attorneys plan this week to
appeal the decision of the appeals
court to the U.S. Supreme court and to
ask for a stay of the lower court decision while the case is pending.
THE MARCH could also be cancelled if the Illinois house of representatives approves two bills which were
approved by the state senate on May
10. One bill would make it illegal to defame any ethnic group, while the other
would ban demonstrations likely to result in physical violence and outlaw the
display of symbols and uniforms having historical associations with violence.
Smith refused to speculate on the likelihood of a June 25 Nazi march because he said, “I don’t want to issue a
challenge to them. I don’t want to back
them into a corner. I’d like to give
them every escape hatch.”
Smith said he still believes the village will ultimately win its case
against the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) which is representing
the Nazis. If the case is accepted by
the Supreme court, new case law regarding the First Amendment will be
put on the books, he said. “I still don’t
believe the First Amendment is absolute,” Smith said.
large amount of publicity accompanying their efforts to enter Skokie. He
pointed to letters and petitions with
more than 1,500 signatures sent in support of the village’s stance in opposing
the march as evidence of a nationwide
backlash against the Nazis.
Reacting to a statement made last
week by Nazi leader Frank Collin who
offered to abandon plans for a Skokie
march if he were legally allowed to
march in Chicago, Smith said “I don’t
make deals with Nazis” and called Collin’s statement a “cop-out.”
According to Erna Gans, leader of a
group of Holocaust survivors, an office
has been established by her organization, the Dr. Janusz Korczak B’nai
B’rith lodge, to handle work related to
the threatened march.
ACCORDING TO Smith, the neo-Nazis actually have been hurt by the
VOLUNTEERS IN the second story
office at 4948 Dempster answer phone
calls and letters from all over the
country from people seeking information or offering support. The office is
also the central headquarters for a nationwide petition drive aimed at the
U.S. Supreme court, Congress, and the
President, asking for protection “from
neo-Nazism and from ideologies that
preach hate and promote hate symbols, so that one-half million Americans and 20 million other innocent
people of every race, creed, religion
and nationality who lost their lives during World War II should not have died
in vain.”
Gans said the petitions will be presented to all three branches of the federal government by a delegation of at
least one person from every state and
as many senators and representatives
as the group can attract.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Skokie History
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Plan counterdemonstration : Nazi group given permit to march
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Dubey, Diane
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Skokie officials have issued demonstration permits to both the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) and to the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. Current status of legal battle between Skokie and the Nazis is presented.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
6/1/1978
Subject
The topic of the resource
Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors
National Socialist Party of America
Gans, Erna
Goldstein, Sol
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Skokie Life, Thursday, June 1, 1978, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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eng
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1970s (1970-1979)
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Skokie Public Library, Reference Department
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Plan anti-Nazi
march April 20
proposed counter-demonstration, but
noted that “the larger the crowd, the
SKOKIE-A peaceful anti-Nazi more difficult security will be, When.
demonstration by about 500,000 will be ever there is a large number of people,
held on April 20, according to Chicago you have to see problems:”
‘There’s nothing wrong with the
Jewish leaders, although village officials speculate that such a crowd will idea of a counter-demonstration-it’s
basically for solidarity,” Smith said,
create massive security problems.
The rally, to be held at the same “but we’ll have to see how things
time and place as a threatened march shape up before we make any final
by a small group of neo-Nazis from judgments.”
Goldstein said the counter-demonChicago’s Marquette Park area, was
formally announced Wednesday, stration is intended to “involve the toMarch 8 at a press conference called tal American community in the name
by the Jewish Federation of Metropoli- of brotherhood against Nazism and in
memory of the holocaust.
tan Chicago.
“We are aware of our international
Only hours after the press conference, a spokesman for the National So- support,” he said, “and we will take
cialist (Nazi) Party of America told every step to put the Nazi obscenity in
the LIFE, “In view of the recent pub- its proper perspective. We are aware
licity, I’m sure we’ll be marching on of our responsibility-the whole world
is looking at us.”
April 20 as planned.” The Nazis chose
“The Nazis are not coming to SkoApril 20 because it is the 89th anniverkie to air their ideas,” Goldstein said,
sary of the birth of Adolf Hitler.
Neither the Nazis nor the counter- “They are coming to tell us they are
demonstration leaders have applied for sorry so many Jews were left over."
the necessary parade permit which He said he had come “to a free counmust be requested at least 30 days be- try, to Skokie where I thought there
would be no more swastikas in front of
fore an event.
my eyes.”
REGARDING THE application for
GOLDSTEIN SAID he envisions
permits, “We’ll have to adjust ourselves to them,” according to Sol Gold- April 20 as a time when 50,000 will
stein, a holocaust survivor and Skokie march for “freedom, brotherhood, and
resident who chairs the committee on life” while five or ten will demonstrate
individual liberty and Jewish security for “tyranny, hatred, and murder.
of the public affairs committee of the
“We will have enough strength to
Jewish United Fund (JUF). “They assure that there is no violence,” Goldcould say the 20th and come on the stein said. “Peaceful minds will find a
21st. I just don’t know,” Goldstein said. way that the Nazis won’t be able to
Even if the Nazis bypass Skokie or provoke violence.”
reschedule their march, the Jewish
Asked how violence will be preventFederation will sponsor a week-long
program of non-violent educational ac- ed should the openly-militant members
tivities stressing the American heri- of the Jewish Defense League (JDL)
tage of freedom and recalling the show up, Goldstein said, “We will surhorrors of the holocaust. Beginning on round them and control them also.”
April 16, the week will feature both paGoldstein added the
triotic celebrations and the distribution resentatives will appearfederation repbefore the Chiof educational material and literature
cago city council
on the holocaust to children in schools Michael Bilandic to invite Mayor
as “an honored
and at youth meetings, Goldstein said.
guest” at the counter-demonstration.
“We have two generations with no Gov. Thompson has already announced
personal recollection and knowledge of his intention to participate in any antithe holocaust,” said Raymond Epstein, Nazi rally planned at the time of the
chairman of the JUF public affairs
committee. “It is not our intent to Nazi march.
create a violent confrontation,” he
Jerome Torshen, attorney for Gold- Goldsaid, “but it (the Nazi march) should stein in a series of legal moves to avert
a Nazi march, explained that “a numnot be ignored. We can make something educational of this.”
ber of Skokie residents cannot ignore
the march. These holocaust survivors
SKOKIE MAYOR Albert Smith told are so conditioned that they must be
the LIFE that he will participate in the
there.”
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
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Participants voice mixed reactions
Did Sko kie win Nazi struggle?
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
SKOKIE - Cancellation of the longawaited and potentially explosive Nazi
demonstration in Skokie has drawn
mixed reactions from participants in
the year-long drama.
To Mayor Albert Smith, Skokie has
emerged victorious from its long strug-
gle against Frank Collin’s National
Socialist Party of America. Although
the village ultimately lost each of its
legal battles, “the purpose of the fight
was to not have these people come to
our community. They aren’t coming so
it has to be a victory,” Smith said
Thursday, June 22.
But because of the village’s legal
defeats and because Collin this week
acknowledged the possibility of yet
another march in Skokie if his legal
rights to rally in Chicago are taken
away, other anti-Nazi leaders believe
that there has been no victory at all for
Skokie.
“I don’t see any victory - I feel terrible to know that another community
(Chicago’s Marquette Park area) faces
the problems of fear and antagonism
we faced until now,” Skokie Trustee
Jackie Gorell said Monday, June 26.
Although she is “happy that they
didn’t come,” Gorell still believes that
the village principles should have been
upheld in the courts. “We lost on our
principles. We believe that this kind of
speech is not covered by the First
Amendment, and I still fully disagree
with the courts.”
THE NAZI MARCH was formally
called off Thursday, June 22, at at
press conference held by Collin at the
Nazis’ southwest Chicago headquarters. The group chose not to exercise its
legal rights to assemble in Skokie after
a federal court decision last week
paved the way for Nazi demonstrations
in the Chicago parks. According to Collin, Skokie was only a bargaining tool
in his fight to freely hold rallies in Chicago neighborhoods such as Marquette
Park, Gage Park, and the Bogan area
where he feels he has potential membership and support.
But Chicago park district officials
Monday, June 26, announced its intention to appeal the ruling of U.S. District Court Judge George Leighton who
struck down a $60,000 insurance bond
requirement for use of the parks, and
Collin renewed threats of a Skokie
demonstration.
“What happened in Skokie last week
was a total victory for the Nazis,” said
Buzz Alpert, chairman of the Chicago
Jewish Defense League (JDL) chapter
which has renounced affiliation with
the national JDL.
BY UPSETTING people throughout
whole community is at his (Collin's)
disposal,” Zissman said. “It’s a shame
we can’t put a stop to it legally. To me
the matter is not over with - it’s only
over for the 25th.”
RABBI MEIR Kahane, founder of
the JDL who last week stood in front o f
Nazi headquarters daring the Nazis to
See related stories
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Skokie and the entire country, by forcing the creation and subsequent dismissal of elaborate security measures,
and by creating a great inconvenience
to everyone involved in preparations
for the Nazi demonstration, the Nazis
scored a great victory, according to Alpert. “And they can still come any
time they want and recreate the turmoil all over again,” he said.
Harold Zissman, a Holocaust survivor who fought in the Polish resistance
during World War II, conceded that he
is “happy not to be raped of our rights
. . .but displeased that it isn’t a finished
case.”
Because the Nazis won the legal
right to free speech in Skokie, “the
march in Skokie, called the situation
“a terrible defeat. For 1 1/2 years the
Nazis have used the Jews as a yoyo
and have gained $1 million in free publicity.”
At the Monday, June 26 village
board meeting, Smith emphasized the
solidarity among Jews and Christians
throughout the country which was
created by the Nazi threat.
“Something has resulted which may
never before have happened in our
country. Out of the whole matter,
maybe the United States of America
has taken one little step to wipe out bigotry and hate. Maybe the reason the
Nazis didn’t come is because we had
all of these fine groups supporting us.”
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Participants voice mixed reactions : Did Skokie win Nazi struggle?
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National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) cancel their demonstration in Skokie after a year-long legal battle that won them the right to march.
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6/19/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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No swastikas allowed
Lift march injunction
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
THE SWASTIKA has been banned from the streets
of Skokie-but members of the National Socialist
(Nazi) party are no longer bound by an April 30 court
injunction which has prevented a Nazi demonstration
in Skokie since that time.
In lifting the injunction issued by Cook County Circuit Court Judge Joseph Wosik, the three Illinois appellate Court judges, Thomas McGloon, Mayer
Goldberg, and John O’Connor, ruled that the presence
of the swastika, the Nazi emblem, would constitute deliberate provocation of the people of Skokie.
However, they said Skokie attorneys failed to
prove that either the Nazi uniform or printed materials the Nazis alledgedly intended to distribute would
incite violence.
THE APPELLATE court judges also ordered the
case sent back to the Cook county circuit court for a
ruling on a permanent anti-Nazi injunction since Tuesday’s decision pertained only to Wosik’s temporary injunction.
Nazi lieutenant Michael Kelly said Tuesday that he
believes the ban on swastikas is “unconstitutional. . .
and we will go to the U.S. supreme court on this.
“If the swastika can be banned in Skokie, it can be
banned anywhere in the U.S. and anything else can also be banned-like the Star of David,” Kelly told The
LIFE.
At the July 8 hearing on the injunction, Nazi leader
Frank Collin said he would not march without displaying the swastika.
“That is my party identification, that is my sym-
bol, and we will not be parted from it, he said.
Collin appeared at the hearing in a black suit and
tie and a white shirt while his three companions wore
the traditional Nazi uniform consisting of brown shirt,
khaki trousers, and high black boots, but displayed no
swastikas on their persons.
Gilbert Gordon, assistant corporation counsel for
Skokie, claimed at the hearing that “We are not asking
to keep Mr. Collin and his followers out of Skokie-we
want to keep him from what we consider an assualt on
our people.
“Why does he need the swastika and storm trooper
uniforms?” Gordon asked.
The distinction between prior restraint and subsequent punishment formed the basis for the argument
presented by David Goldberger, attorney for the
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is representing the Nazis.
�GOLDBERGER SAID COLLI
N’S demonstration is
a classic exercise of first amendment rights,” adding
that “there never has been any threat of injury to onlookers.”
He said the Nazis should not be prohibited beforehand from marching; but would be subject to punishment if they broke the law.
The July 8 hearing resulted from a June 15 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court instructing the state
courts to either lift the injunction or to hold a speedy
hearing on the matter.
But even with the injunction lifted, for all practical
purposes, the Nazis are legally prohibited from marching in Skokie unless they can post a $350,000 insurance
bond which Collin has said the group is unable to obtain. The bond requirement is one provision in a series
of three ordinances adopted May 2 by the Skokie village board which prohibit both demonstrations by
members of political parties who wear military-style
uniforms and the distribution of materials which incite
group hatred.
BOTH NAZI LEADERS and their attorneys have
indicated their intentions to challenge the Skokie ordinances incourt.
The reluctance of the Nazis to hold a Skokie demonstration in violation of the law is shown in their failure to appear for marches they scheduled on May 1
and July 4, both dates which were covered by the Wosik injunction.
Despite the absence of Nazis, about 1,000 people assembled on July 4 at the Mayer Kaplan Jewish Community Center in Skokie for a rally sponsored by the
Jewish Defense League (JDL).
At that time, they heard JDL leader Rabbi Meir
Kahane guarantee violence in the event of a Nazi
march in Skokie and pledge an end to the Nazi presence in Chicago and to the Nazi office, itself, in the
southwest Marquette Park area.
Although about 800 JDL members from across the
country were expected in Skokie on July 4, most did
not come when it became apparent that the Nazis
would not show up. About 100 did show up, however,
from JDL chapters in New York, New Jersey, and Florida. Several sticks and clubs belonging to JDL embers were confiscated by Skokie police before the
rally.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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No swastikas allowed : Lift march injunction
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The swastika has been banned from the streets of Skokie, but members of the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) are no longer bound by a court injunction that has prevented a Nazi demonstration.
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7/14/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Collin, Frank
Goldberger, David
Gordon, Gilbert
Kelly, Michael
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Neo-Nazis say they’ll
hold rally in Skokie
By DIANE DUBEY
Staff Writer
A SOUTHWEST Chicago neo-Nazi
leader said this week his group may
hold a rally in Skokie on Easter Sunday because he wants to “talk about
the Crucifixion and put the blame
squarely where it belongs.”
If adequate security cannot be arranged in time for an Easter rally, he
and his followers probably will show up
on Sept. 26 instead, according to Michael Allen, head of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party of America, headquartered in Chicago’s Marquette Park
area.
The National Socialist Party of
America is the same neo-Nazi organization which repeatedly threatened to
march in Skokie between December
1976 and June 1978. Frank Collin, their
leader during that period, now is serving a seven-year term for taking indecent liberties with a child.
ALLEN, NEO-NAZI leader since
Collln’s imprisonment, told The LIFE
Thursday, March 5, that he has narrowed down possible rally sites and
now is considering two Skokie parks.
He refused to identify the parks “for
security reasons.”
Allen said he would contact village
officials within a week to discuss applying for a permit.
Asked why he believes he will have
a chance to make his views known in
Skokie when he recently was booed and
pelted out of an Evanston park, Allen
said his group is “buying a new PA
(public address) system, so maybe a
few people will hear us this time,”
Allen said he is bringing his group
to Skokie because “the Jews are ruining this country” and, because he personally does not hate Jews, he wants to
advise them to “mend their ways.
“IF THEY don’t . . . there will be a
pogrom in this country that will make
the ones in Europe look like Jewish festivals,” he said.
Allen said his organization has 300
members across the country, of whom
66 are active stormtroopers and 36 are
in the Chicago area. Local chapters
have been formed in St. Louis, Cleveland, Washington, D.C., North Carolina, Texas, California and Nevada, he
said.
Skokie is not the only target for a
neo-Nazi rally this year. Demonstrations have been scheduled for May 16
in Midlothian, June 26 in La Grange,
and Aug. 1 in Palos Hills, according to
Allen.
Out-of-town rallies are planned for
Cleveland and St. Louis, he said, but
the group is having some difficulty securing a permit for a rally in San
Francisco.
“We want to have an anti-queer rally, but since queers are so popular
down there in San Francisco, they’re
not too keen on giving us a permit,” he
said.
Skokie Mayor Albert J. Smith had
no comment on the possible rally, say-
ing he planned to discuss it with village
attorneys.
Gilbert Gordon, senior attorney for
the village, said Thursday that he will
make no response until the village has
been given specifics on the time, date
and place of a proposed rally.
“UNTIL I get that, I won’t speculate,” he said. “The Supreme Court
has said the First Amendment depends
on the time, date and circumstances,
and to speculate would be idle.
“Rumors are insufficient (basis) for
us to say anything at all,” he said.
During the 1½year period which
ended in June 1978, American Civil
Liberties Union attorneys battled Skokie on nearly every rung of the judicial
ladder, claiming that the constitutional
right to free speech entitled the neoNazis to hold a demonstration in the
village.
Although the ACLU’s legal efforts
ultimately were successful, their
clients were given the opportunity to
gracefully back out of a potentially
dangerous Skokie rally. Instead, the
neo-Nazis agreed to demonstrate that
summer in Marquette Park, a location
previously off-limits to them because
of three Chicago Park District ordinances which were ruled unconstitutional in U. S. District Court.
That ruling also knocked down the
Skokie ordinances which had been used
to avert a Nazi march, since Skokie
village and park officials had adopted
virtually the same ordinances that had
been enacted in Chicago.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Neo-Nazis say they'll hold rally in Skokie
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Dubey, Diane
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National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) plan to hold a rally in Skokie on Easter Sunday.
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3/8/1981
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Nazis, Skokie
in court again
DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
A JEWISH survivor of World War II holocaust,
three Skokie officials, and Chicago Nazi leader Frank
Collin presented evidence Friday, Dec. 2 in a hearing
on Collin’s suit against the village.
The lawsuit filed in August challenges the constitutionality of three Skokie ordinances which require
groups wishing to march in the village to post a $350,
000 insurance bond, prohibit the wearing of military
style uniforms by marchers, and forbid the distribution of printed material which incites group hatred.
Testifying in the Chicago courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Decker, were Sol Goldstein,
a Skokie resident who escaped from a Lithuanian ghetto, John Matzer, village manager, Kenneth Chamberlain, chief of police, Marvin Bailey, director of housing
development, and Collin, leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) party of America. A written statement from
Skokie Mayor Albert Smith, recuperating from surgery, was also submitted.
Goldstein claimed that the sight of Nazi uniforms
and swastikas on the streets of Skokie would inflict
great emotional damage on those who survived the
World War II Nazi attrocities.
Collin, who is being represented by the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) testified that he still
wants to lead a march in Skokie to exercise his right to
free speech but indicated he would not demonstrate in
the village until legally allowed to do so.
The three ordinances challenged in the lawsuit
were approved by the Skokie village board on May 2,
only days after two Nazi marches were averted by
court injunction. All evidence relating to this case
must be submitted to Decker by Dec. 12 according to
Harvey Schwartz, Skokie corporation counsel.
The Illinois supreme court is expected to rule soon
on the Swastika ban throughout Skokie which was
upheld by a threejudge panel of the Illinois appellate
court in July.
ACLU attorneys, Aug. 9, appealed to the high
court, asking that the ban be lifted because it constitutes a violation of the Nazi’s first amendment rights.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Nazis, Skokie in court again
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Dubey, Diane
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A lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of 3 Skokie ordinances which require groups wishing to march in the Village to post a $350,000 bond, prohibit the wearing of military-style uniforms by marchers, and forbid the distribution of printed material that incites group hatred.
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12/8/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors
National Socialist Party of America
Collin, Frank
Goldstein, Sol
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Skokie Life, Thursday, December 8, 1977, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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Nazis stay out
By DIANE DUBEY
Staff Writer
IN MID- OCTOBER, 1977, Skokie residents learned,
that the U. S. Supreme Court would not hear
arguments aimed at preventing a Nazi demonstration
in their village.
But it didn't matter anymore.
The conflict ended months earlier, in June, when
the Nazi march that was to be simply never
materialized:
• When the tiny group of neo- Nazis from
Marquette park in Chicago decided that they didn't
really want to be in Skokie on June 25 anyway.
• When Nazi leader Frank Collin, a half- Jew, the
son of a concentration camp inmate, apparently
realized that his small group of marchers might not
fare well against the thousands of Holocaust survivors
and Jewish Defense League (JDL) members who
would be waiting for them.
• When a federal court judge provided Collin a
way to save face, overturning a Chicago park district
insurance requirement and ordering Chicago park
officials to grant permission for a July 9 Nazi march in
Marquette Park. A pleased—and no doubt
relieved—Collin told the press that all he was agitating
for was the right to recruit followers through
demonstrations on Chicago's Southwest Side.
"I have no interest in Skokie or any other hostile
area, " he said, telling reporters he would not hesitate
to threaten further marches hi Skokie if anyone
interfered with his free speech rights in Chicago.
• When the 50, 000 counterdemonstrators expected
to arrive in Skokie from across the country learned
that there would be no Nazi menace hi Skokie and
concluded that they might just as well stay home and
throw a few hot dogs on the grill.
• When the Skokie police breathed a collective
sigh of relief and disbanded preparations which were
to bring in 300 neighboring patrolmen, large numbers
of state troopers and national guardsmen, and seven
helicopters.
BY OCTOBER it was all over but the reminiscing.
The story that had put Skokie on the map was no
longer making headlines.
Harvey Schwartz, Skokie's corporation counsel,
was in the forefront of the movement to keep the Nazis
out of the village, fighting one legal battle after
another against the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU), which voluntarily undertook the
representation of the Nazis.
Looking back on the entire episode, Schwartz said,
"I think the community achieved what it wanted—the
demonstration was prevented. "
The first six months of 1978 saw Skokie
overshadowed by the threat of a Nazi demonstration.
The Nazis did not come to Skokie hi April and no
educational activities ever materialized.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Nazis stay out
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Dubey, Diane
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Review of the outcome of the proposed Nazi march and efforts to prevent it.
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2/12/1981
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America -- Press coverage
American Civil Liberties Union
Courts of last resort -- United States
Holocaust survivors
Collin, Frank
Chicago Park District (Chicago, Ill.)
Jewish Defense League
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Nazis sitting on decision
Skokie march may be averted
DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
IF NAZI leader Frank Collin keeps
his word, his National Socialist Party
of America (NSPA) will not demonstrate in Skokie on Sunday, June 25.
For months Collin has announced
publicly that a Skokie march was only
a bargaining tool in his battle for the
legal right to hold rallies on Chicago
park district land. He has sought court
permission to demonstrate in Chicago
because he sees potential recruits and
sympathizers in the Bogan, Gage Park
and Marquette Park areas of Chicago.
“I have no interest in Skokie or any
other hostile area,” he said early this
week.
Collin won his battle and Skokie
may be spared a potentially violent
confrontation on June 25 through a Tuesday, June 20 decision by U.S. District
Court Judge George Leighton. In his
ruling Leighton struck down the Chica-
go park district ordinance requiring a
$60,000 insurance bond from demonstrators.
IN DOING so, Leighton modified his
ruling of July 29, 1977 which struck
down a Chicago park district ordinance
requiring a bond of between $100,000
and $300,000 of liability insurance and
$50,000 of property damage insurance,
but acknowledged that government
agencies “may require some type of
insurance or indemnity.”
After that ruling the bond was reduced to $10,000 of liability and $50,000
property damage.
But this week, Leighton clarified his
position and announced “this plaintiff
(the Nazis) will not be able to get insurance...they couldn’t get a policy for
one dollar.” If he had been told in July,
1977, about the insurance problems for
a group like Collin’s, he would have eliminated any such requirement, Leigh-
ton said.
The Nazis have been represented
throughout their legal battle by the
American Civil Liberties union (ACLU).
The judge ordered park district officials to grant the Nazis a permit for a
July 9 demonstration in Marquette
park, but assured park attorney Richard Troy that the park district will
not be held legally liable for any injury
or damage resulting from issuance of
the permit.
DURING THE morning hearing
Leighton seemed inclined to agree with
Troy’s position that no decision should
come before a full hearing on facts on
the availability of insurance for such
controversial groups as Collin’s. But
Tuesday afternoon, he prefaced his ruling by saying, “In the long run the
plaintiffs will prevail-is there any
sense in going through a lot of riga-
marole when we see with great clarity
where this will go in the end?”
He then decided to prove that “the
legal system can cut through red tape”
and announced that he would modify
his previous order and “preclude any
insurance requirement from interfering with the right of the plaintiff to exercise first amendment rights on the
premises of the defendant (park district).”
Leighton added that the exact contents of his order will be worked out at
a later hearing where Troy will also be
able to argue against the decision.
Troy maintained through the end of the
hearing that the park district has a
“compelling necessity” to keep the insurance ordinance and that the Nazis
did not actively try to obtain such insurance.
“THIS IS the first case I’ve ever
heard of where they give the ruling
first and hold the hearing later,” Troy
said. Even before Leighton’s decision,
Troy said the lack of a formal announced hearing “deprives us of our
rights. We are entitled to our day in
court.”
Troy later said that the “real win-
ton’s decision is important “for reasons entirely unrelated to Skokie and
Frank Collin.”
According to Hamlin, the same requirement which banned Nazi demonstrations in Chicago parks also prevented rallies by other organizations
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ner in this case is Skokie” and said he
believed the order had been issued to
stop the Nazis from going to Skokie
and “to prevent the potential disruption.”
David Hamlin, executive director of
the ACLU, told The LIFE that Leigh-
including black civil rights groups and
the Bailey Alliance Against Nuclear
Power Plants. “The impact of the insurance requirement was to lock every
body out of the Chicago parks,” Hamlin said. “In his decision, Leighton ended the lock-out.”
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Nazis sitting on decision : Skokie march may be averted
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Dubey, Diane
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U.S. District Court Judge strikes down Chicago Park District ordinance requiring an insurance bond from demonstrators. Frank Collin, leader of the local National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) says he will not demonstrate in Skokie on June 25, 1978.
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6/22/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Skokie Life, Thursday, June 22, 1978, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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Nazis return
to high court
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
SKOKIE- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
is again turning to the United States Supreme Court in
its efforts to secure the right for members of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party of America to march in
Skokie...with their swastikas.
The high court may act as early as this week in
response to the ACLU petition asking the court to stay
the injunction which has prevented a Nazi demonstration for nearly four months.
A three judge panel of the Illinois Appellate Court
had modified the original April 29 injunction to permit
the Nazis to march, but without displaying swastikas,
The ACLU attorneys, who are acting as legal counsel
for the Nazis, believe that even the modified injunction
abridges their clients’ first amendment rights to free
speech.
ACCORDING TO David Hamlin, ACLU executive
director, the U.S. Supreme Court was asked on Friday, Aug. 19, to stay the modified injunction until a
hearing on the constitutional merits of the case is held
in either the Illinois Appellate or Illinois Supreme
Court.
In a previous action on August 9, ACLU attorneys
asked for a similar stay in the Illinois Supreme Court
but this request has not yet been acted upon.
“I continue to believe that a first amendment ban
cannot exist until you have a full hearing on the merits
of the case,” Hamlin said, adding that “this may be
the longest running injunction in the history of the United States. It is unconscionable.”
In a case involving first amendment rights, “There
has to be a rapid conclusion to the legal process...first
amendment rights are abridged while an injunction is
in effect,” Hamlin said. “This is not a case that can
move slowly through the courts.”
THE U.S. SUPREME Court has already acted in
the Nazis vs. Skokie case, on June 15 lifting the original injunction until the case was heard in a state court.
At that time, Hamlin hailed the high court decision
as “a significant statement about first amendment
protections...requiring state courts to respond affirmatively to constitutional issues.”
However, Harvey Schwartz, Skokie corporation
counsel, called the decision “important and significant...but limited in scope, very narrow.”
This time around, Schwartz said village attorneys,
in filing an answer to the ACLU appeal, are stating
that the ACLU “has already had all the relief mandated to it” in the last Supreme Court decision.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Nazis return to high court
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) petitions the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the injunction which has prevented a National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) demonstration for nearly four months.
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8/25/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Nazis pledge
to rally soon
in suburbs
By DIANE DUBEY
Staff Writer
THE SMALL band of southwest Chicago neo-Nazis who had requested permission to demonstrate at Centennial
Park in Evanston Saturday, Sept. 29 Yom Kippur Day - will not demonstrate anywhere that day since they
were turned down by officials of Evanston and two other suburbs.
But their spokesman this week
vowed that they eventually will hold
rallies in every Chicago suburb and
targeted Skokie as one of their 1981
destinations.
“Our plans (for Sept. 26) have been
changed,” said Dennis Milam, a member of the National Socialist (Nazi)
Party of America Tuesday, Sept. 16.
“We are a totally legal organization
and, if we obey the law, the City of Evanston is going to have to obey the law,
also.”
JOEL ASPROOTH, Evanston’s assistant city manager, said the Nazis’
permit request was denied because the
demonstration “would constitute a public nuisance if conducted any time during the three-week (Jewish) holy
season.” But, since no new application
to demonstrate on another date has
been submitted, “I can’t say what will
happen until we have a further application, ” he added.
But Milam said his group would
wait only until Monday, Sept. 22, for
Evanston officials to provide an alternate date for their rally. Otherwise, he
said, a lawsuit will be filed charging
the city with abridging the Nazis’ right
to free speech.
Milam also pledged that the Nazis
will punish those communities which
resist their efforts to demonstrate.
“We’ll keep coming back to the ones
who give us the most resistance,” he
said.
Of Evanston, he added, “Once we
get there, we’ll be back several times
in a row because they’ve made it so
difficult for us.”
APPLICATIONS TO demonstrate in
Cicero and Oak Park Saturday also
were denied, although Milam said Oak
Park officials have granted permission
for the following Saturday, instead.
However, their Oak Park rally is
contingent upon the presence of a large
number of police - and the village has
decided that the Nazis must pay for
their own police protection, Milam
said.
The National Socialist Party of
America is the same Marquette Parkbased neo-Nazi group which gained
worldwide attention by attempting to
march in Skokie at various times between December 1976 and June 1978.
Frank Collin, their leader throughout that period, currently is serving a
seven-year prison term for taking indecent liberties with a child.
Apparently to get away from that
stigma, Milam insisted that “We are a
totally new NSPA with new leaders....We are not held to his (Collin’s)
commitments.”
MILAM SAID the decision to demonstrate in Evanston came not because
of that community’s significant black
population, but because “there are still
plenty of white people left in that area
and white people at Northwestern
University...to hear our messages.”
Although Skokie’s 1½-year legal
battle with the neo-Nazis resulted in
one court after another upholding the
group’s First Amendment right to freedom of speech, an earlier precedent involving Skokie did prevent a Nazi
demonstration during the 1966 High
Holy Days.
The American Nazi Party, led by
George Lincoln Rockwell, had announced plans to encircle Skokie synagogues and march around carrying
anti-Semitic placards.
But their plans were aborted by a
ruling of U. S. District Court Judge Joseph Sam Perry who issued a permanent injunction forbidding such
marches, meetings, picketing or demonstrations on any Jewish holy day in
any location closer than one-half mile
to a synagogue.
The Nazis and Rockwell, who was
assassinated the following year, wanted to carry “placards inscribed with
vicious, irreverent and vulgar language directed to worshiping, law-abiding citizens of the Jewish faith - all
this under the cloak of freedom of
speech and all in direct and flagrant
violation of the right of a people to assemble and worship peacefully and
without insult,” Perry wrote at that
time.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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National Socialist Party of America (Nazis), under new leadership, apply for permits to march in Evanston, Cicero, and Oak Park.
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9/18/1980
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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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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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Nazis now plan July 4 demonstration in Skokie
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Bernstein, Al
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National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) plan march on July 4 following United States Supreme Court ruling.
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6/16/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Nazis claim
they will
avoid trouble
By DIANE DUBEYDUBEY
Correspondent
NAZI LEADERS say that they are
not coming to Skokie to look for trouble
but that they will be prepared should
they find it.
Preparations are now underway for
a demonstration by about 50 uniformed
Nazis wearing swastika armbands and
helmets, according to Richard Tedor,
spokesman for the National Socialist
Party of America.
Marching in front of Skokie Village
hall between 3 and 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 25, the Nazis will carry
American flags and display signs demanding free speech for white people, Tedor said. The helmets will be
worn in anticipation of ‘possible brickthrowing,” he added.
“We will carry no anti-semitic signs
or any stuff to bait the crowd,” Tedor
said. “We won’t bring any rocks,
bricks, or ilIega1 weapons. We’ll wait
until we’re attacked. We don’t intend to
start violence.”
THE NAZIS anticipate trouble but
are not going to rely on the good will of
the Skokie police department for protection, according to Tedor.
“We’ll be psychologically ready to
fight, we usually fight with our fists
and we’ll also have the flag poles.”
Because the Nazis are afraid they
will be physically prevented from entering the village, their route is known
only to leader Frank Collin, Tedor
said.
Early this week, Collin was visiting
other states to encourage participation
in the march by out-of-state Nazis.
“We’re making all the preparations
for the march, even though we’re not
sure we’re going,” Tedor said.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Nazis claim they will avoid trouble
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Dubey, Diane
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The National Socialist Party of America (Nazi party) insists that it is not looking for trouble during a planned march in Skokie.
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6/15/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Skokie Life, Thursday, June 15, 1978, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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csl780615a.pdf
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eng
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1970s (1970-1979)
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Skokie Public Library, Reference Department
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Nazi fate lies with U.S. Supreme Court
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
THE FATE of Nazi demonstrators in Skokie is now
in the hands of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul
Stevens.
If Stevens decides to lift the injunction issued in
April by Judge Wosik of Cook county circuit court, the
Nazis will assemble in Skokie in late June or early
July, according to Frank Collin, Nazi leader.
Wosik issued the injunction to stop the Nazis from
marching in Skokie on May 1. When the South Chicagobased group changed its demonstration plans to April
30, Judge Harold Sullivan hurriedly extended the injunction to cover that date and any future rallies.
These demonstrations were planned to protest the requirement of a $350,000 insurance bond from any group
wishing a rally permit from the Skokie park district.
Representing the National Socialist (Nazi) Party
of America, the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) on June 1 filed a petition asking Stevens to lift
the injunction pending appeal of the lower court ruling
which prohibits the party from demonstrating in Skokie.
BOTH THE Illinois Appellate court and the Illinois
Supreme court have refused, within recent weeks, to
overturn the injunction.
But David Hamlin, ACLU executive director,
thinks the chances “are probably pretty good that Stevens wlll lift the injunction.” He explained that the
judge might either lift the injunction permanently or
merely stay the injunction until a trial is held before
the entire Supreme Court. Hamlin said that he expects
an answer to his petition by early next week.
Harvey Schwartz, Skokie corporation counsel, said
that the village mailed its answer to the ACLU petition
on Tuesday, June 7. In their answer, village attorneys
ask that the matter “be allowed to proceed through the
state courts until a final determination is made
through the orderly process of appeal,” he said.
If and when the injunction is lifted, the Nazis will
challenge three village ordinances by violating them,
Hamlin said. 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.
ACCORDING TO Hamlin, the Nazis cannot march
in Skokie as long as the injunction remains in force be
cause “under no circumstances are they justified in violating a court order.” However once the injunction is
overturned, violation of the three ordinances, adopted
May 2 in response to threatened Nazi demonstrations,
is a legitimate way to challenge their constitutionality.
“It is crucial to the first amendment issue that we
raise the constitutionality of the ordinances themselves,” Hamlin said.
The Nazis are eager to assemble in the northern
suburbs in general-and Skokie in particular-because
“we’ve tried everyplace else and we’re running out of
alternatives,” Collin told The LIFE on June 7.
“It’s purely a free speech issue,” he said. “Onethird of a million dollars of insurance is exorbitant, unreasonable, and legitimate cause to demonstrate.”
Asked if a Nazi appearance in Skokie isn’t sure to
incite violence Collin said, “Absolutely. But we’re not
telling anyone to be violent.”
HE SAID his organization wants to uncover the
“double standard in Skokie. He claimed that the same
leaders who supported freedom of speech for other
groups and thought “the ACLU was great” when it
worked for the civil rights of black people fo an aboutface “on the question of free speech for white racial
organizations.”
Collin and his group have two goals set for the
summer of 1977. They hope “to crack Skokie-to dramatize the free speech issue” and to hold a public rally
and march in Marquette park in Chicago.
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Attempted Nazi March in Skokie, 1977 and 1978, Digital Collection
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Skokie History
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Nazi fate lies with U.S. Supreme Court
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Dubey, Diane
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The U.S. Supreme Court is deciding whether or not to lift an injunction barring the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) from marching in Skokie.
Date
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6/9/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Skokie Life, Thursday, June 9, 1977, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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csl770609a.pdf
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eng
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1970s (1970-1979)
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Skokie Public Library, Reference Department
newspaper clippings