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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>
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Skokie History
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Skokie Public Library
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0:08:29
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Jewish Broadcasting Network
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Skokie: Memories of a March
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Documentary film, produced by the Jewish Broadcasting Network (JBN) in 2002, chronicles the events surrounding the efforts of the National Socialist Party of America (Nazi Party) to march in the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois in 1977. The film includes interviews with Judge Harvey Schwartz, Rabbi Neil Brief, Ron Gould, and Jackie Melinger. In addition, recordings of the voices of Sol Goldstein, Mrs. Luda Beck, Nathan Schaffner, and Jack Israel from the late 1970s are included in this film. A note at the end of the film indicates that funding was provided by Mr. and Mrs. Ben Klein. The original video recording is 9 minutes long.
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2002
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Quicktime
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Racism -- United States
Freedom of speech -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors -- Illinois -- Skokie
Skokie (Ill.) -- Demonstration, 1977
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©Jewish Broadcasting Network
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Melinger, Jackie
Brief, Neil (Rabbi)
Schwartz, Harvey
Gould, Ron
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eng
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2000s (200-2009)
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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>
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Skokie History
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Skokie Public Library
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0:26:05
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Holzman, Mitchell; Holtz, Abraham
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Echoes of a Nightmare
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Holzman, Mitchell
Holtz, Abraham
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Cinema verité documentary chronicling the now famous incident concerning the efforts of the American Nazi Party to march in the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois. Filmed in and around Skokie and Chicago, EOAN captures all the major participants; Skokie residents, Holocaust survivors, the ACLU, and the Nazis during the height of the controversy. July 9, 1978 rally in Marquette Park with huge counterdemonstration.
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Interviews with Holocaust survivors in Skokie, Illinois. Footage of Marquette Park area in Chicago, Illinois and interviews with Frank Collin and other neo-Nazis. Includes footage of June 24, 1978 rally in Federal Plaza in Chicago.
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1987
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MP4
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National Socialist Party of America -- Illinois -- Chicago
National Socialist Party of America -- Illinois -- Skokie
American Civil Liberties Union -- Illinois -- Chicago
Skokie, Illinois
Hate speech
Racism -- United States
Freedom of Speech -- Illinois -- Skokie
Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Chicago
Holocaust survivors
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© Mitchell Holzman and Abraham Holtz
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Echoes of a Nightmare.mp4
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Zizzo, Christopher
McCormick, John
Brown, Betty
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eng
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1980s (1980-1989)
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Skokie aide calls swastikas,
Nazi uniforms ‘violent acts’
A Skokie official said Friday
that Nazi swastikas and
“storm trooper” uniforms are
not an exercise of free speech
but “have the force and the effect of a violent act upon many
thousands of people in Skokie.”
Village Atty. Harvey M.
Schwartz made the comment
before a U.S. 7th Circuit Court
of Appeals panel reviewing a
U.S. District Court decision to
strike down three ordinances
aimed at prohibiting a planned
march by Nazis in the heavily
Jewish suburb.
Judges Wilbur F. Pell Jr.,
Robert A. Sprecher and Harlington A. Wood Jr. are expected to rule on Skokie’s appeal
within three weeks. On Friday,
the courtroom was packed
with spectators as arguments
by attorneys for both sides
were heard.
David Goldberger, an attorney for the American Civil
Liberties Union, which is representing the Nazi group, argued that the stricken ordinances w e r e unreasonably
broad.
“There is no way for a speaker or communicator to know
what is legal or illegal,” he
said. Under the ordinances, he
said Polish jokes might be a
violation and newspapers and
television stations could be
prosecuted for showing pictures of the march because
they also would inflict “trauma” on the viewers.
He argued that “this (Nazi)
assembly would be permitted
in virtually any other place in
the United States . . . except
the Village of Skokie.”
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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>
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Skokie History
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Skokie Public Library
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Skokie aide calls swastika, Nazi uniforms 'violent acts'
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Skokie Village attorney Harvey M. Schwartz speaks before U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals panel reviewing the U.S. District Court decision to strike down three ordinances preventing the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) from marching in Skokie.
Date
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4/19/1978
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Assembly, Right of -- Illinois -- Skokie
Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Freedom of speech -- Illinois -- Skokie
Illinois -- Law and legislation
National Socialist Party of America
Schwartz, Harvey
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Chicago Sun-Times, Wednesday, April 19, 1978, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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cst780419b.pdf
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eng
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1970s (1970-1979)
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Skokie Public Library, Reference Department
newspaper clippings
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Nazis and Skokie: incredible morality play
Georgie
Anne Geyer
WASHINGTON - If the demonstration had not been canceled Thursday night, a large group of American Nazis
would have marched through the pleasant, mostly Jewish
suburb of Skokie, Ill., this Sunday. As they moved past the
houses of the people there, many survivors of the concentration camps, they would have spoken, shouted, provoked and
given out literature to celebrate-two months late-the
birthday of Adolf Hitler. And all of it would have been
protected by precisely those First Amendment rights that
they would so wantonly destroy if they could.
That, at least, was the picture given out by the press, and
this had stirred emotions in many to the level of terror.
THERE IS ONLY ONE TROUBLE. Much of it wasn’t true.
And I have to say as a journalist that, if there had been
trouble Sunday, we in the press would have borne some
responsibility for it. M y purely emotional feeling has been
that the Nazis should not have been permitted to be in
Skokie. Most countries of the world have laws against either
group libel or advocacy of genocide.
But . . . the Nazis were not going to “march through
Skokie,” as almost every article said. They were going to
wear the heinous uniforms we all hoped died in the bunkers
of Berlin, but they were not going to speak a word. Indeed,
as they circled for only a half hour in front of city hall, they
would have engaged only in what is called “symbolic
speech” - uniforms and signs. Legally, it is a form of speech
also protected by the First Amendment in the same manner
as wearing arm bands during the Vietnam War.
I HAVE TO THINK THAT SOME of the inner and outer
terror the once-victims of Skokie have been put through
might not have occurred were it not for the incredible
overwriting of this emotion-ridden story.
As Executive Director David Hamlin of the American Civil
Liberties Union in Chicago says, “If I see the 'march through
Skokie’ one more time, I’ll scream. To a great extent, the
things people have feared have come from the stark relief
way in which the press has perceived it from the beginning.
A simple little Nazi demonstration was not enough.”
The ACLU lawyers, many of whom are themselves Jewish
and thus have suffered a particularly exquisite torment, have
convinced me that even Nazis, as disgusting as they are,
have the right to “symbolic speech.”
But what, I have kept asking myself lately, about the kind
of anti-group libel law or anti-genocide law which other
countries enjoy? Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal touched on
this when he visited Chicago recently, saying, “You need
what we have in Europe-a law against racial hatred.”
But Hamlin persuaded me against this. “The group libel
law [that the Illinois Legislature was considering] would
also sweep up the Bible for decrying the Jews who left the
fold, Shakespeare because of Shylock and, if it didn’t get
Randy Newman’s ‘Short People,’ it would surely get his
‘Rednecks.’”
WHY NOT A LAW against the advocacy of genocide?”
“My difficulty here,” Hamlin says, “is that then I can’t see
my enemies. As it is, I know where they are. The enemies
I’m afraid of are the ones I can’t see. The minimum would be
to drive them underground. Also, you see how loosely all of
this can be applied in the UN.” He paused. “It has been said
that Zionism is the equivalent of racism; in effect, that
Zionism is ‘group libel.’ Do we want that?”
When it is all played out, what will be left behind is the
memory of an incredible morality play: young Jewish ACLU
lawyers acting out their lives in the best tradition of The
Book and The Law against precisely that other atavistic
primitivism that is always there, too, lurking in the mold and
shadows, to destroy civility and civilization.
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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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Skokie Public Library
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Nazis and Skokie: incredible morality play
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Geyer, Georgie Anne
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Opinion on press coverage and moral and legal issues surrounding the planned National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) march.
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6/24/1978
Subject
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Assembly, Right of -- Illinois -- Skokie
Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Freedom of speech -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
National Socialist Party of America -- Press coverage
National Socialist Party of America -- Public opinion
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Chicago Sun-Times, Saturday, June 24, 1978, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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ist780624a.pdf
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eng
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1970s (1970-1979)
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Skokie Public Library, Reference Department
editorials and opinions
newspaper clippings
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Membership woes hurt
ACLU while others gain
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
WHILE THE American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has suffered a significant loss of membership and
funding due to participation in the ongoing Nazi controversy, another group
has greatly benefited from its stand on
this issue.
“We’re getting a broad base of support among middle-American Jews
who are finding out that violence is not
our basic theme,” said Buzz Alpert, director of the Chicago area chapter of
the Jewish Defense League (JDL).
Alpert told The LIFE Wednesday,
May 24, that local JDL membership
has expanded from the core group dating back to the early 1970’s to more
than 250 at present.
“People realize that violence sometimes becomes necessary in order to
preserve Jewish life and continuity,”
he said.
In contrast, the ACLU Chicago office, which chose to provide legal coun-
sel to neo-Nazis who have been
planning to march in Skokie, has lost
about 25% of its membership and nearly one-third of its budget, according to
David Hamlin, ACLU executive director.
BUT, HAMLIN said, the members
who have chosen to abide by the ACLU
decision “are providing a little extra
support.”
The national ACLU organization
recently raised $400,000 in a special solicitation for the Nazi defense, he said.
“This shows an institutional willingness to support even unpopular litigation.”
Leaders of both the JDL and the
ACLU share an interest in preserving
First Amendment rights, but they are
of different minds in determining what
these rights are.
“Any person of reasonable intellig-
ence would not kid himself to think
that the founding fathers formulated a
First Amendment that people could use
as an excuse to preach death,” Alpert
said.
Hamlin maintains that all ideas
have the right to be aired so that people have sufficient information to make
an intelligent decision.
“The greater exposure (Nazi leader) Frank Collin gets, the safer I am
from him,” he said. “The more critical
examination of his philosophy, the
more people who will understand how
evil and dangerous that philosophy is.”
ACCORDING TO Alpert, 95% of the
JDL feels that the current battle is not
a question of the First Amendment.
“We believe that the judicial system
does not have the courage to uphold
the law,” he said.
To Hamlin, however, the legal system in this country “serves rather well
ultimately. It’s slow and arduous, often ponderous and weighty, but it gets
the job done,” he said.
Asked if he is frustrated by the
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ACLU loses members
(Continued from page 1)
seemingly unending legal struggle between Skokie and the Nazis, Hamlin replied that he is “Frustrated in the
sense that this controversy has a way
of not going away and we’d like to
move on to other things.”
But, he added, “This is the way the
legal system works, and besides, I’m
too tired to be frustrated.”
While the ACLU is paving legal
roads for a Nazi march in Skokie, JDL
members are preparing for the same
day.
WE'LL DO what we have to We're conducting classes in street
fighting, teaching firearms, and pre-
paring to meet them head on,” Alpert
said.
“While this is going on , Frank
Collin is laughing at his Jewish lawyer
(ACLU attorney David Goldberger)
and the courts - he's the last one to
believe this has anything to do with
First Amendment rights.”
Wha t Alpert finds frustrating is the
fact that the JDL is also engaged in another conflict-with its own national organization.
He told The LIFE that this week the
Chicago and California JDL chapters
formed a coalition and split from the
national body.
“We were willing to work together
for the sake of unity, but the New York
JDL says we don’t exist,” Alpert said.
ALTHOUGH CHICAGO members
are still willing to cooperate with any
chapterr including New York Alpert
said he sees no reconciliation as long
as Bonnie Pechter remains national
director.
The Chicago and Los Angeles-based
chapters still recognize JDL founder
Rabbi Meir Kahane as their “spiritual
leader,” he added.
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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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Membership woes hurt ACLU while others gain : ACLU loses members
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Dubey, Diane
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) membership and funding decline due to its defense of the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) as support increases for the Chicago chapter of the National Jewish Defense League (JDL).
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5/28/1978
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American Civil Liberties Union
Assembly, Right of -- Illinois -- Skokie
Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
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Re:
December 1977
V i l l a g e of Skokie v s . C o l l i n - Nazi March
All speech is not protected by the First Amendment. Libelous
defamatory utterances, obscenities and pornography in violation of community
standards and the factual equivalent of shouting "Fire!" in a crowded
theatre do not merit First Amendment protection.
During the last five decades, the growing complexities of society
have required unprecedented interpretations of the Bill of Rights to meet
unprecedented conditions. It is the genius of the American people and
of the United States Constitution that converts this instrument to a guide
for the maximum benefit of society with minirnimlimitations upon individuals,
rather than e
shackle against change. The circumstances presented in
the Nazi assault upon Skokie challenge the traditional interpretation of
the First Amendment.
The situation in the Village of Skokie is unique in the history
of the United States and indeed in the history of the world. Nowhere else
do victims of the Nazi holocaust constitute 10% of the total population
of a community.
Nowhere else would a march of Nazis in.storm trooper
uniform carrying the hated swastika constitute a deliberate provocation
and a cynical taunt. Nowhere else would this proscribed Nazi march evoke
in so many people such vivid memories of the manner in which their loved
ones met their death.
To the survivors of the holocaust, the murders of their mothers,
fathers, children, brothers and sisters are an everlasting and poignant
memory. The projected march of Nazis is a cruel assault upon these people,
deliberately designed to exacerbate their suffering and revive their memories.
It is offensive to logic, reason, justice and fundamental principles
of fair play to equate the proscribed activities of Nazis in Skokie with the
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right of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly guaranteed by the
First Amendment. Just as the Constitution does not preserve the right
I of the Nazis to physically assault the holocaust survivors in Skokie, so
should it not license them to perpetrate an infinitely more serious assault
upon their sensibilities.
The Nazi swastika and uniform is thesymbolic equivalent-of a public
call to "Kill all Jews"-. This and similar direct incitations to mass murder
are not entitled to First Amendment protection. Our democracy was*not
created to maintain the instruments of its own destruction. The proscribed
activities.constitute acts ofaggression, not a demonstration for rights or
a protest to a.denial of rights." The Nazis seek confrontation, violence
and dissemination of-their doctrine of racial and religious hatred and murder.
Their "protest march11 is directed against the right of Americans of the
Jewish Faith to live.
The cultural, ethnic and religious diversity of Skokie's population
makes it especially vulnerable to ethnic, racial and religious conflicts.
Until recent years, persons who could be characterized as "visible minorities11
were negligible in number. Today every school district within the Village
contains children who constitute a visible minority. This 'includes Chinese,
Japanese, East Indian, Pakistani an and Latino persons. These new minorities
are welcomed to the Village and are, in fact, encouraged to come here by
the Village policy of "Freedom of Opportunity to All*1. In many cases,
these new minorities share a history of discrimination which make them
particularly vulnerable to the activities of the Nazis and other racist
groups. The goal of Skokie's elected officials is to eliminate social
injustices and to expand opportunities for all of its residents, old and
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new. Our actions taken against' the Nazis and other hate groups is
intended to provide leadership for high moral and constitutional principles
and encouragement to the residents who share them. On the other hand,
our action operates as a sanction against behavior which is counter-productive
to these principles and which threatens the implementation of rights
guaranteed to all under the Constitution of the United States. All of the
Village authorities are acutely aware of their legal and moral responsibilities
in this connection.
By ordinances, examples, education, and a strong human relations
policy, the Village of Skokie has been able to maintain an atmosphere of
cooperation and friendliness between all of the diverse elements which make
up its population. Our residents know they are free to live in the Village
in the fullest sense of the term, without abuse, defamation, or other
cruelties inflicted upon them or their children by reason of their color,
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We have no illusions about the situation. We know from experience
how quickly they take hold, how widespread they become and how painful
are their results. The proposed demonstration by the Nazis made us realize
the dangers of such public demonstrations, characterized by defamations,
threats and epithets. Such conduct is morally wrong. Its harm is irrefutable.
Its victims are defenseless. Such anti-social conduct is not worthy of
First Amendment protection.
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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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Mayor's Report Regarding the Village of Skokie vs. Collin - Nazi March
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Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Photocopy of a three-page report from Mayor Albert J. Smith addressing the proposed march by the National Socialist (Nazi) Party
the interpretation of the First Amendment
the percentage of holocaust survivors in Skokie
the cultural diversity of Skokie
the wearing of swastikas and Nazi uniforms
and Village ordinances and policies.
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1977-12
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Freedom of speech -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors
Ordinances, Municipal -- Illinois -- Skokie
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993 -- Messages
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2004.012.077.pdf
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CAPITOL OFFICE
DISTRICT OFFICE
1 1 6 W. EASTMAN ST.. - ROOM 207
2045 STRATTON BUILDING
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS. ILLINOIS 60004
TELEPHONE
(312) 255-5588
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS 6 2 7 0 6
ILLINOIS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
TELEPHONE
(217)782-8106
EUGENE F. SCHLICKMAN
STATE REPRESENTATIVE • 4TH DISTRICT
June 15, 1978
Honorable Albert J. Smith
Village of Skokie Mayor
5127 Oakton Street
Skokie, IL 60077
Dear Al:
Thank you for your telegram in support of Senate Bills 1676 and
1811.
In committee and on the floor of the House I supported SB 1676 but
voted against SB 1811. (I was the only one in committee that voted
for one and against the other).
I am most concerned about the sensitivity of the First Amendment,
and I voted for SB 1676 because I felt it was sufficiently limited
in scope and would not conflict with the First Amendment/ I think
SB 1811 would.
I am sorry that the House did not discharge SB 1676 from committee
and I pray that the planned march on June 25th will be peaceful.
Sincerely,
Eugene F. Schlickman
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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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Letter to Mayor Smith from Illinois Representative Eugene F. Schlickman
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This letter to Mayor Smith from Eugene Schlickman, Illinois State Representative, 4 the district, is a thank you for his telegram in support of Senate Bills 1676 and 1811. Eugene Schlickman explained why he voted for bill 1676 but not 1811, as he felt
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6/15/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Illinois -- General Assembly -- House
Illinois -- Law and legislation
Freedom of speech -- Illinois -- Skokie
Schlickman, Eugene F. -- Correspondence
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Hatred on the march
Must suburban Skokie, with its large Jewish
population, tolerate an anti-Jewish hate group
parading in its midst ? The Supreme Court
in effect has said yes-though not loud and
clear, but in the hoarse whisper of a 5-to-4
ruling that means several things.
First, the decision Wednesday cited the
basic rights of peaceful assembly and free
speech. But the First Amendment does not
grant the right to incite a riot. There’s no
right to shout “Fire!” in a crowded theater.
Thus the court majority did not see the march
as a provocation in itself.
Yet many will see a provocation.
The Nazi Party knows that some 7,000
Jewish residents of Skokie suffered Nazi
atrocities in Europe. Party leaders say they
want to march where their concepts are most
opposed. That's not a march for positive civil
rights but a taunt and a publicity grab.
As one Jewish spokesman said, the march
is “a deliberate and calculated affront” to
Chicago’s Jewish community. It is even more:
It is an outrageous affront to every Chicagoan
who believes in decency and human brother hood under the fatherhood of God.
It is also a classic test of democracy. A
cherished principle of free people to speak
and assemble will be used-misused-by a
small group to spew their hate. In the broad
scheme of freedom, even Nazi distortions and
Nazi lies must be allowed to be heard.
To hear something is not to endorse or
accept what is heard. But to censor speech
is to endorse tyranny. The free exchange of
ideas, even wrong ones, is basic in a democracy-though it must not harm others.
Thus the Supreme Court ruling is right,
even as it puts strains on human emotions
and civic responsibilities.
Now, Skokie and Cook County law agencies
must come forth to keep the peace if the Nazi
march is held. (Perhaps it won’t be. Other
Skokie ordinances such as insurance requirements may cool the Nazis’ zeal, but that cannot be assumed.) Outsiders should stay away.
And residents with memories of Nazi cruelty deep within them should try to restrain
understandable impulses to oppose the march
ers. To let such evil parade alone-to deny
it attention-might have been inappropriate
in Berlin in the 1930s, but it is an appropriate
response in a democracy in 1977. Hatred dies
under its own weight.
If the Nazis march, we hope it’s on July 4th.
Their views will contrast clearly as ugly and
pitiable against the ideals celebrated on that
birthday of freedom.
Honorable people can disagree about school
desegregation methods, but Chicago protesters who have marched in recent days with
Nazi symbols have no honor. The twisted
cross of the swastika symbolizes twisted values that Americans cannot accept.
Those who wear swastika T-shirts and carry
swastika signs reveal their own ignorance
They shame themselves. They shame Chicago. They shame their 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>
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Hatred on the march
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Editorial opposing hate speech, but advising those against a planned National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) demonstration to resist violent opposition.
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6/17/1977
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Assembly, Right of -- Illinois -- Skokie
Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Freedom of speech -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
National Socialist Party of America -- Public opinion
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Free speech paramount
ACLU lawyer defends Nazi rights
NEW YORK (UPI)-The Constitution protects free speech even though-as in Nazi
a
demonstration in Skokie , Ill .-it might cause
an emotional reaction or “psychological injury,” an American Civil Liberities Union
lawyer said Saturday.
Nazis won the right earlier this year to
demonstrate in Skokie, a Chicago suburb
where many survivors of the World War II
Holocaust live. But the group-the National
Socialists Party of America-chose instead,
after winning another court fight, to rally
last month in Chicago’s Marquette Park.
ACLU legal director Bruce Ennis told an
American Bar Assn. group that one argument used against the Nazis in their court
battle was that the display of swastikas,
symbolizing genocide to many, would inflict
“substantial psychological injury on Skokie
residents.”
Ennis, who was counsel of record for the
Nazis, agreed that many in Skokie would be
“traumatized” by such a protest.
BUT HE SAID one purpose of free speech
is “to stir up anger and emotional responses.
We cannot establish in this country a new
doctrine to prohibit free speech whenever it
causes an emotional reaction from an audience.”
Ennis continued: “I assume most black
Amer ican s
would be upset or injured to hear
a Harvard geneticist talk about white superiority” or for a gay group to hear Anita
Bryant give her views on homosexuality.
“But we cannot suppress that kind of speech
based on that kind of speculative audience
reaction.”
Other highlights of the ABA’s annual
convention here:
l Ethics committee chairman Lewis Van
Dusen of Philadelphia announced his panel’s
implicit endorsement of a proposal to relax
longtime ABA rules against the use of news
cameras and broadcast equipment in courtrooms.
Van Dusen presented his committee’s proposed changes in the ABA’s code of ethics,
which serves as a model for federal and state
laws. “This proposal is consistent with one
being proposed to the association’s House of
Delegates,” he told a press conference.
The House of Delegates, the group’s poli-
cy-making body, will be asked this week to
appove another committee’s proposal to endorse greatly expanded use of cameras and
broadcast equipment at criminal trials.
The proposal is expected to spark considerable controversy. Organized opposition already has formed.
The ABA’s endorsement would be advisory only, but the association’s past opposition
to “cameras in the courtroom” is reflected in
most state and all federal courts where
photographic and broadasting equipment is
outlawed.
l The organization’s president-elect, S.
Shepherd Tate of Memphis, told law students attending the convention that the unemployment rate for lawyers is rising and
their median income is going down. He said
that swelling law school enrollments have
sharply reduced the job outlook for new
lawyers.
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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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Bruce Ennis, counsel for the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) in their case against Skokie, discusses this First Amendment case at an American Bar Association meeting in New York.
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Delay refused
for Nazi march
By Phillip J. O’Connor
and Charles Nicodemus
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused
to postpone a planned June 25 Nazi march in
suburban Skokie and a Nazi leader said later
the ruling may help prevent the demonstration.
By a vote of 7 to 2, the justices rejected
Skokie officials’ request to delay the march
pending consideration of the village’s formal
appeal.
Skokie Mayor Albert J. Smith said at a
press conference Monday night that he was
“very disappointed” and that the village has
contacted the Illinois National Guard, state
police and other law enforcement agencies
as it prepares for the demonstration.
Richard Tedor, deputy leader of the National Socialist Party of America, said the
Nazis would be willing to cancel the demonstration if “all our rights are restored” in a
hearing before U.S. District Court Judge
George N. Leighton here June 20.
“WE WILL CANCEL the Skokie demonstration if we are immediately granted our
rights of speech and assembly in Chicago
parks, ” Tedor said. “However it must be all
or nothing. We’re not talking about being
given the right to hold one rally.
“We want to be able to hold rallies in any
Chicago park as often as we want.”
Tedor said he was acting as the Nazi
spokesman because the group’s leader here,
Frank Collin, was “out East recruiting members of other Nazi units to get them to join
us in Skokie on June 25.”
Tedor said the Nazis set three conditions
for canceling the march and “with the
Supreme Court ruling, two of the three
conditions have been met.”
He said the Skokie demonstration was
planned to call attention “to the fact that
Nazis are being denied their rights in Chicago. Frank Collin says we’re using Skokie as
a tool. If we get our rights back in Chicago,
we’ll forget about Skokie.”
SKOKIE WAS TARGETED because of its
heavy Jewish population, which includes
4,500 to 7,000 survivors of World War II
Nazi concentration camps.
Tedor said that with Monday’s ruling by
the high court and the Illinois General Assembly’s failure to pass laws restricting the
Nazi demonstration, the only condition not
met is the striking of restrictions that bar
Nazi demonstrations in Chicago parks.
“If we can march in Marquette Park [on
the Southwest Side], we won’t go to Skokie.
If it is not decided [in the Nazis’ favor] by
June 25, we’ll go into Skokie.”
Smith called the high court’s decision
“most regrettable” and said that “all legal
action to block the demonstration has been
taken.”
SMITH SAID THAT Skokie “will make
every effort to maintain order” during the
Nazi march and a counterdemonstration
planned for about the same time in Skokie
by a Jewish umbrella group.
Leaders of the umbrella group said they
expect up to 50,000 persons to take part and
have pledged that their demonstration,
scheduled to end near the Skokie Village
Hall while the Nazis are still marching, will
be peaceful.
However, Rabbi Meir Kahne, leader of the
militant Jewish Defense League, has threatened a violent confrontation with the Nazis
to block the demonstration.
Smith said village officials have been in
contact with Gov. Thompson’s office and
have received assurances that National
Guardsmen and state police “will be ready
and, if needed, they will be available.”
ASKED IF HE WAS concerned about
possible violence, Smith said, “We are al-
ways concerned. We do not want it, but we
must plan for that eventuality. Anyone who
comes here [to Skokie] for the purpose of
breaking the law will be arrested.”
Both the Nazi demonstration and the counterdemonstration are scheduled to begin 3 to
3:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 25, Smith said. He
said specifics on the counterdemonstration
had not been given village officials yet by
the Jewish umbrella group, but that “at least
part of” that demonstration is scheduled to
take place at the Village Hall.
Smith also said that he was encouraging
Jews and anyone else who wants to take
part in the counterdemonstration to go to
Skokie. “If they want to come, they should
be here,” he added. However such demonstrators must remain peaceful, he added.
David Hamlin, executive director of the
Illinois division of the American Civil LiberTurn to Page 36
Justices bar Nazi march delay
Continued from Page 5
ties Union, which has defended the Nazis in
court, said:
“The Supreme Court’s ruling clearly es-
tablishes that Collin and his group have a
right to march in Skokie. He [Collin] doesn’t
have a clear right to demonstrate in Chicago.
I understand that Collin would rather march
in Chicago than Skokie. I’m sure a lot of
people would prefer that Collin go someplace besides Skokie.”
The Skokie council Monday night voted
unanimously to urge quick passage of state
Senate Bills 1811 and 1676, which would
forbid demonstrations by hate groups.
The proposal was urged by Erna Gans,
president of the Korczak Lodge of B’nai
B’rith. A second proposal was made by the
Clergy Forum, asking that no marches be
permitted on Saturdays or Sundays, as they
might interfere with churchgoers’ travel.
The council told the Clergy Forum it should
take this issue to court,
THE CASE THAT WILL come up before
Judge Leighton on June 20 involves Chicago
Park District regulations on such demonstrations.
The Supreme Court’s denial of the village’s request to bar the march, which had
been submitted to Justice John Paul Stevens
last week, was announced without comment
by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger.
Justices Harry A. Blackmun and William
H. Rehnquist voted in the minority and said
the June 25 rally should be postponed pending consideration of the village’s appeal.
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The U.S. Supreme Court will not postpone a planned June 25, 1978 National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) march in Skokie.
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, Tues., Aug. 16, 1977
Roger Simon
Another side of the Nazi rights issue
In the last few days, Chicago newspapers
have carried headlines about a suspected
Nazi war criminal being discovered in Miami,
a convicted Nazi war criminal escaping from
Italy in a suitcase and local Nazis planning to
march in the suburb of Skokie.
Newspapers are often attacked when they
print such stories. Newspapers are often encouraged to ignore Nazis and not give them
any publicity.
Unfortunately, the only emotion which
Nazis do not attract is indifference. Nazism
has become the symbol for ultimate evil in
the modern era. Interest in Nazis - past,
present and future - will not disappear in
our lifetime.
The level of sensitivity on the subject has
never been captured better than by what is
now happening in Chicago. Two very respectable civil rights groups are grappling with
each other and public opinion over Nazis.
They are on opposite sides of a gulf that has
every indication of widening.
The controversy has reached a level where
a scorecard is necessary:
1. The American Civil Liberties Union The ACLU is defending a group of Chicago
Nazis who want to march in Skokie. They are
suing to allow the Nazis to march in full uniform, with swastika, through the suburb.
ABBOT ROSEN
“They shout the loudest when
you’ve struck a nerve.”
2. The Anti-Defamation League - The ADL
is suing in court to keep the Nazis from
marching in Skokie, saying that Nazi speech
is not protected by free speech considerations.
3. The Nazis - The Nazis would like to see
the members of both groups end up as Post
Toasties, but will use either group for their
own ends. The Nazis are the people easiest to
recognize. They are the ones who are smiling.
In the last few days, the ACLU and the
ADL have exchanged a number of accusations and insults:
l The president of the B’nai B’rith, which
sponsors the ADL, came into town to say that
the ACLU suit “just fosters the Nazi program.” The ACLU has already lost more than
1,000 of its Illinois members and a quarter of
its budget because it is defending Nazis. The
ACLU was not warmed by the statement of
the B’nai B’rith president.
l An ACLU official characterized the ADL
stance as cowardly, saying that the ADL was
merely playing to public opinion in Skokie, a
place where 7,000 Nazi death camp survivors
live. An Monday, the ACLU apologized and
said this was not the official ACLU position.
l Part of the ADL suit refers to an ACLU
lawyer as “neo-Nazi counsel.” The ADL says
it is not calling the lawyer a neo-Nazi. The
lawyer says it is. In response the executive
director of the ADL, Abbot Rosen, said:
“They shout the loudest when you’ve struck a
nerve.”
In between the bickering-almost all of it
unnecessary-a real issue is at stake: To
what extent does the speech of Nazis fall under the protection of the First Amendment?
The ACLU position is that almost all of it
does. The ADL position is that almost none of
it does.
The ACLU position is that even though Nazi
programs, slogans and uniforms may cause
severe discomfort and anguish to the citizens
of Skokie, that is the price to pay for a free
society.
The ADL position is that the “psychic assault” on the Jews of Skokie by the Nazis is
not protected by the First Amendment.
I PRESENTED the ACLU’s position in a
column Sunday. Here is the DAL’s position as
presented by Rosen:
“Firstly, I am a member of the ACLU and I
have not resigned from the organization. Secondly, I was at one time the chief counsel of
the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department. I have come from a long background of
civil rights concerns.
“We believe we are defending the First
Amendment. We are trying to make sure the
First Amendment does not receive a bad
name among very concerned and good Americans.
“If I call you an s.o.b., that’s not free
speech. You can hit me in the jaw and be
Turn to Page 10
�ADL’s side of the Nazi furor
Continued from Page 6
absolutely free from prosecution. There is improper and illegal speech.
“The same march may be perfectly legal in
Daley Plaza, but an assault when you take it
to the Village of Skokie. Even if the Nazis are
silent, that can be an assault if they show up
in brown shirts, jack boots and swastikas.
WHAT THE NAZIS PLAN to do in Skokie is
not protected by free speech. The courts will
decide whether we are correct or incorrect in
this.
“At first, we advised the people of Skokie to
ignore the Nazis. They bitterly rejected this.
OK, they have rejected our advice. We represent the Jewish community. They are our
clients. So our next step was to adopt a tactic
to avoid a ghastly and bloody confrontation.
This we did by filing suit to block the Nazi
march.
“We are engaged in a very legitimate controversy. We are pleased with our role in it.
This matter will be settled - we hope - in
the courts and not in the streets. In this re-
gard we are in accord with the ACLU.”
People should not be upset with the disagreement between the ADL and the ACLU.
It is something that we call democracy. It has
not been around as long as dictatorship, but it
is doing the best it can.
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American Civil Liberties Union
Anti Defamation League
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Freedom of speech -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
National Socialist Party of America -- Public opinion -- Illinois
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ACLU, Nazis challenge
anti-march ordinances
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
SKOKIE OFFICIALS hadn’t yet received formal
notice of a lawsuit filed against them by the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), legal counsel for the
American Socialist (Nazi) Party of America by Monday, August 15, said Harvey Schwartz, corporation
counsel.
Schwartz told The LIFE that he did not expect the
village to take any action on the suit this week, although an official village response to the lawsuit will
be submitted after village attorneys examine the specific challenges.
The lawsuit, filed on Friday, Aug. 12 in federal district court and assigned to Judge Bernard Decker,
charges that three Skokie ordinances regulating public
gatherings are unconstitutional.
According to David Hamlin, ACLU executive director, the ordinances “were drafted so as to abridge the
first amendment rights of the Nazi Party and others
who wish to demonstrate in the village.”
The ordinances, passed May 2 after an aborted Nazi march the previous weekend, require a $350,000 insurance bond from groups wishing to assemble in the
village and prohibit both public demonstrations by
members of poiitical parties who wear military-style
uniforms and distribution of materials which incite
group hatred.
THE THREE Skokie ordinances currently provide
the only legal barrier to a Nazi march in the village.
Previous marches planned for May 1 and July 4 were
prohibited by an injunction issued April 29 in Cook
County Circuit court, but most portions of the injunction were overturned in a decision handed down July
12 by a three-judge panel of the Illinois appellate
court. In their decision, Judges Thomas McGloon, Mayer Goldberg, and John O’Connor banned not the Nazis, but their symbol, the swastika, from the streets of
Skokie.
ACLU attorneys have appealed the anti-swastika
ruling to the Illinois supreme court which has agreed
to hear the case this fall.
Judging from previous cases involving civil rights
or first amendment matters, “the general procedure is
to move the case as quickly as possible,” said Hamlin
who expects “fairly rapid action” on the ordinance
challenge.
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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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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) files suit against Skokie.
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8/18/1977
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Skokie Life, Thursday, August 18, 1977, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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2d suit to block Nazis
from Skokie march fails
By Larry Weintraub
The Illinois Supreme Court again has refused to forbid the long-threatened neo-Nazi
march through predominantly Jewish Skokie.
In a ruling issued Friday, and received
Monday by lawyers in the case, the state tribunal ordered Cook County Circuit Court to
dismiss a suit by survivors of the World War
II Nazi holocaust, who sought to prevent the
march.
Another ruling by the Supreme Court Friday in a related suit filed by the village held
that the Nazi’s First Amendment right of
free assembly guarantees the National Socialist Party of America may march and display
swastikas. That judgment was reported over
the weekend.
The Supreme Court action revealed Monday
ordered dismissal of a class action suit by
Skokie manufacturer Sol Goldstein, a survivor of Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews,
on behalf of all holocaust survivors in the village.
The suit maintained that psychological and
emotional scars caused by memories of the
World War II death camps would impel survivors to attend such a march and attempt to
stop it, possibly by violence.
The court had ruled in the village’s suit that
Skokie residents were not impelled to attend
a Nazi rally and, therefore, the First Amendment rights could not be abridged.
Jerome H. Torshen, attorney for the survivors, said he would formally ask the state
high court to reconsider the question.
“This ruling is totally unprecedented,” he
said. “The Supreme Court ordered dismissal
(of the suit) without giving the plaintiffs a
hearing, without reading the motions, without
considering the merits.
“The court has denied the litigants the right
to be heard.” He said he would file his motion
for reconsideration within the next two
weeks.
David Hamlin, executive director of the Illinois American Civil Liberties Union, which is
defending the Nazis, said the Supreme
Court’s ruling On the village’s suit “couldn’t
have been stronger” and he believes the ruling on the Goldstein action was saying that
Swastikas and liberty - an editorial; Page
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the court “considers the survivors’ suit to be
the same as the village’s suit.
“The court’s ruling is so strong that they’re
saying they won’t rehear the suit,” Hamlin
said, “and the ruling is so strong it’s possible
the U.S. Supreme Court will deny an appeal.”
Skokie officials said over the weekend they,
too, will ask the state Supreme Court to reconsider its judgment on their suit, and will
appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court if the Illinois ruling is not changed.
The Nazis, headed by Frank Collin, have
been trying to demonstrate in the village
(where Jews comprise approximately 40,000
of the 70,000 population) since April.
If the state high court decisions stand, only
one other legal barrier to a march would exist.
That involves three village ordinances hastily passed to thwart the march. The ordinances are being challenged in a suit before
U.S. District Court Judge Bernard M. Decker,
Decker has heard arguments in that action
and is expected to rule soon.
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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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2d suit to block Nazis from Skokie march fails
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Weintraub, Larry
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Illinois Supreme Court orders the Cook County Circuit Court to dismiss a suit by survivors of the World War II holocaust who sought to prevent a National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) march in Skokie.
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1/31/1978
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Assembly, Right of -- Illinois -- Skokie
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Freedom of speech -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors
National Socialist Party of America
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Goldstein, Sol
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Torshen, Jerome H.
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Chicago Sun-Times, Tuesday, January 31, 1978, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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