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Suits, charges heat dispute
over Nazi plans to march
By Bob Olmstead
and Lillian Williams
American Nazi plans to march in heavily
Jewish Skokie were a-swirl with controversy
Monday as:
l The American Civil Liberties Union
charged Illinois courts are disobeying a t w o week-old Supreme Court order to act
promptly on the Nazi request for a march
permit.
l A Skokie Jew filed a class-action suit in
behalf of all Jewish survivors “of racial extermination carried on by Adolf Hitler,” asking that the Nazis be permanently banned
from marching in Skokie.
l A group of activists including “the Revolutionary Communist Party” threatened violence if necessary to block the planned Skokie
march by the Nazis on July4.
l Skokie residents reported that many received anti-Jewish hate mail Monday.
The ACLU charge was made by David
Hamlin, the executive secretary of the
group’s Illinois division.
He said the Supreme Court on June 14 ordered the Illinois Appellate Court “either to
stay the (Circuit Court) injunction pending a
hearing, or schedule a hearing virtually immediately .”
“The Illinois courts have done neither,”
Hamlin said. “The Illinois courts are not
obeying the Supreme Court order.”
The Appellate Court has asked both sides to
file on Tuesday their proposed schedules to
handle the matter. Hamlin said the ACLU
will ask the Appellate Court to lift the injunction barring a Skokie march immediately. If the Appellate Court does not, he said,
"We would immediately appeal to the state
Supreme Court. If the state Supreme Court
doesn’t stay the injunction, we'd go to the
U.S. Supreme Court.”
Hamlin added that even if the injunction
were struck down immediately, the Nazis
would still have to fight what the ACLU believes are unconstitutional Skokie ordinances
drawn up to require them to put up a $350,000
bond in order to get a permit, and which ban
paramilitary uniforms or “symbols that are
offensive to the community.”
He said he doubted that all these legal bar-
riers could be removed by July 4.
In Circuit Court, Sol Goldstein, 63, asked
the court to permanently bar the Nazis from
marching in Skokie.
He argued that any such march would
cause Skokie residents who are survivors of
the World War II holocaust “severe emotional
distress.” He submitted an affidavit by a University of Chicago psychiatrist, Dr. Lawrence
Z. Freedman, who said that such a march
would cause various emotional injuries to the
Jews, including “an urge to respond pathologically to the re-enactment experience,”
Others threatened other means to stop the
march.
Jerry Biegel, 28, a spokesman for the “Run
the Nazis Out of Town Coalition,” called a
press conference at the Dirksen Federal
Building to say he led a group that has vowed
to stop any Nazi 4th of July march "by any
means necessary.”
Biegel said he did not rule out violence as
one of those means.
Literature handed out by the group claimed
those vowing this opposition included Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the Iranian
Students Assn. and the Revolutionary Communist Party.
A spokesman at the Illinois Communist
Party headquarters, 27 E. Monroe, said it is
not connected with the Revolutionary Communist Party and opposes violence as a
means of stopping the Nazis on July 4.
Mrs. Rosalyn Davis of 9458 N. Lore1 in
Skokie, said she received hate literature Monday from the “National Socialist White
People’s Party” giving alleged racist quotes
by Abraham Lincoln and asking “How many
stores in your area are Jew owned?”
Mrs. Davis said she complained to the
Skokie Post Office, and was told the Post Office had received many similar complaints
that morning.
"You know” said Mrs. Davis, “no member
of my immediate family was in a concentration camp, and I thought I could look objectively on this. But now I’m furious.”
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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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Suits, charges heat dispute over Nazi plans to march
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Olmstead, Bob
Williams, Lillian
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) charges Illinois courts are disobeying state Supreme Court order to act promptly on National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) request for march permit. Sol Goldstein files a class-action suit on behalf of World War II holocaust survivors. Activists threaten counterdemonstration to Nazi march. Skokie residents receive hate mail.
Date
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6/25/1977
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors
National Socialist Party of America
Biegel, Jerry
Davis, Rosalyn
Goldstein, Sol
Hamlin, David
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Chicago Sun-Times, Saturday, June 25, 1977, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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cst770628a.pdf
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eng
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1970s (1970-1979)
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Skokie’s side
Smith tells ‘other’side of ‘78 Nazi story
by Jennifer Waters
Amid a friendly atmosphere during
a WBBM-TV talk show with Lee
Phillip last week, Skokie Mayor Al
Smith discussed with author David
Hamlin the situations surrounding the
neo-Nazi rally attempt in Skokie in
1978.
The mayor, obviously pleased with
the turnout of the “Noonbreak” show,
said that he and Hamlin did not
display any personal adversary on the
air.
Hamlin supported the American
Civil Liberties Union with their fight
to protect the Nazi’s constitutional
right to freedom of speech during the
1977-78 court battles to keep the Nazis
out of Skokie. He has just released a
book, "The Nazi-Skokie Conflict," and
was in Chicago to promote it.
“It went really well,” the mayor
said. “David talked about a simple
case of the Nazis first amendment
right to freedom of speech and I
interrupted him right away.”
“I told him (Hamlin) that probably
he and the ACLU call Nazism and
swastikas freedom of speech, but I
call them terrorism. There is a
distinct difference between speech
and terror,” the mayor explained.
He said that he wanted to point out
to Hamlin his inaccuracies within his
book. “In three places within the book
he was very inaccurate, and he should
have known better. When he spoke of
the Illinois Supreme Court decision,
the Circuit Court of Appeal decision
and the Supreme Court decision, he
said that there was unanimous
approval, when there was dissention
(in each decision).”
The mayor’s decision to appear on
the talk show with Hamlin and in turn,
Gil Gordon of the legal department's
decision to be aired on a WGN talk
show, were to tell the “other side” of
the Skokie story, Smith said.
“If we had not gone on those shows,
then Hamlin would have had free
reign of the entire situation and it
would go uncontested. That is why it
was incumbent upon us to tell our side
of the Skokie story,” he explained.
�SKOKIE MAYOR Albert Smith discusses
the controversy surrounding the Nazi
attempt to march on Skokie with Lee
Phillip, host of “Noonbreak,” a WBBM-TV
talk show. See story on page 7.
�
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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 Public Library
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Skokie's side : Smith tells 'other' side of '78 Nazi story
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Waters, Jennifer
Abstract
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Mayor Albert Smith and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) leader David Hamlin discuss Hamlin's book "The Nazi-Skokie Conflict" on a television talk show. Includes photograph of Lee Phillip and Mayor Albert Smith.
Date
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3/12/1981
Subject
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American Civil Liberties Union
Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Hamlin, David
National Socialist Party of America
Phillip, Lee
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Skokie Review, Thursday, March 12, 1981, Pioneer Press Newspapers, Glenview, IL
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csr810312b.pdf
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eng
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1980s (1980-1989)
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newspaper clippings
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Skokie asks
court to block
rally by Nazis
By Lloyd Green
The Village of Skokie asked
the Circuit Court Wednesday
for an emergency order to stop
a Nazi group from holding a
march and rally in the heavily
Jewish suburb.
Frank Collin, leader of the
National Socialist Party of
America, has announced plans
to speak at 3 p.m. Sunday in
front of the Skokie Village Hall
to protest the village’s refusal
to grant the group a park rally
permit last month.
The suit contends the rally
would incite violence in the
community where more than
40,000 of the 70,000 residents
are Jewish.
“The march. . . is a deliberate and willful attempt . . . to
incite racial and religious hatred,” the petition charges.
It says that members of the
Nazi group, with headquarters
at 2519 W. 71st St., have been
phoning Skokie residents with
Jewish surnames telling them
of Sunday’s planned rally.
Joe Weber, a spokesman for
the Nazis, denied any such
phone calls had been made.
“We’re not trying to harass
anyone,” he said. “We’ve been
denied permits for rallies in
Chicago so we decided to go to
the suburbs. Skokie is a Jew
suburb, so we figured that
would be a good place to apply
the pressure.
Weber said the Nazi members, some of whom will be in
uniform, plan to march around
the village hall before Collin's
speech. He said he did not
know how many members
there would be.
“Collin’s speech will b e
mainly political,” Weber said.
“Whether it will be anti-Jewish
will depend on the circumstances.”
The American Civil Liberties
Union has been representing
the Nazi group in its legal efforts to obtain rally permits in
Chicago Parks. David Hamlin,
e x e c u t i v e director of the
ACLU’s Illinois Division, said
free speech is the issue at
stake.
“I imagine we’ll represent
them in a hearing on this
Skokie suit, if they ask us,”
said Hamlin. “It seems to be
against the free-speech guarantees of the Constitution.”
�
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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 asks court to block rally by Nazis
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Green, Lloyd
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Village officials ask Circuit Court for an emergency order to prevent a National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) demonstration in Skokie.
Date
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4/28/1977
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Collin, Frank
Hamlin, David
Weber, Joe
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Chicago Sun-Times, Thursday, April 28, 1977, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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cst770428a.pdf
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eng
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Nazis win court fight
SKOKIE - The Illinois Supreme
Court Friday, Jan. 27, affirmed the
right of the National Socialist (Nazi)
Party of America to march in Skokie
in full regalia.
However, the small group of neoNazis from Chicago’s Marquette Park
area will not march in Skokie and violate three village ordinances, according
to David Hamlin, executive director of
the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU). The three ordinances require
a $350,000 insurance bond and prohibit
public demonstrations by members of
political parties wearing military-style
uniforms and the distribution of materials that incite group hatred.
“Although they are technically free
to march, the party has taken a position not to engage in unlawful activities
in the village,” Hamlin said. He added
that he expects to learn the fate of the
ACLU lawsuit against the ordinances
“within a matter of days.”
�
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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 Public Library
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Nazis win court fight
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The Illinois Supreme Court affirms the right of the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) to march in Skokie, but the Nazis decide not to march.
Date
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1/29/1978
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Hamlin, David
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Skokie Life, Sunday, January 29, 1978, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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csl780129a.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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Nazis may drop Skokie march on 4th
By Laura Green
Amid legal maneuvers and the possibility
of violent confrontation, Nazi leader Frank
Collin said Tuesday that he may not march
on Skokie after all.
Collin, who has called for a Fourth of July
march through the heavily Jewish suburb,
said it will take place only if it is legal. “We
won’t break any laws,” he said.
Skokie denied the Nazis’ request for a permit on the ground the planned March would
violate a village ordinance that prohibits
demonstrations by persons in military-style
uniforms, Al Rigoni, administrative assistant
to the Skokie village manager, said. A letter
turning down the request was sent Monday
night, he said.
The American Civil Liberites Union asked
the Illinois Appellate Court in a brief filed
Tuesday to stay an injunction against the
march issued earlier by the Cook County Circuit Court.
“We insist the injunction be stayed,” David
Hamlin, executive secretary of the Illinois
ACLU, said. “Then we’ll take any schedule
that Skokie wants.”
The appeals court Tuesday ordered all
briefs on the injunction to be prescribed by
July 7 and scheduled arguments to be heard
on July 8. Until that time, the injunction stopping the march stands, a court official said.
O n Monday, Hamlin charged that Illinois
courts are disobeying a 2-week-old Supreme
Court order to act promptly on the Nazi
request for a March permit. He said then he
would appeal to the state Supreme Court if
the appeals court did not lift the injunction.
In New York Tuesday, a spokesman for the
Jewish Defense League said it would send
about 800 members to Skokie to stop the Nazi
march. The spokesman threatened that the
group would be armed with baseball bats.
Also on Tuesday, Skokie resident Robert
Diamond, an official of the Jewish War Veterans, said a request for a march permit by
that group for the Fourth of July also had
been turned down by village officials, even
though the veterans group has posted the required $350,000 bond.
Diamond said village officials told his organization after the bond had been posted that it
had not met a requirement to request a permit 30 days before the desired march.
The Chicago Assn. of Reform Rabbis called
for all “legal means to prevent this march,”
saying that “the physical safety of American
citizens takes precedence” over issues of
free speech.
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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 may drop Skokie march on 4th
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Green, Laura
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Frank Collin, leader of the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) says that he may not march in Skokie on July 4th. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asks Illinois Appellate Court to stay an injunciton against the march issued by the Cook County Circuit Court.
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6/29/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Collin, Frank
Diamond, Robert
Hamlin, David
Rigoni, Al
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More Nazi debate
Censure ACLU position
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
SKOKIE - The intense fear and hatred aroused in
many Skokie residents by the threat of a Nazi march
in the village surfaced again Tuesday, Sept. 20, when
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) executive director David Hamlin participated in a panel discussion
sponsored by B’nai B’rith women.
Other members of the panel were Skokie Mayor
Albert Smith, Rabbi Marc Gellman, director of the
B’nai B’rith Hillel foundation at Northwestern university, and Gerard Leval, one of the attorneys working
on a class action suit filed by the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League against the National Socialist (Nazi)
Party of America on behalf of Skokie residents who
are survivors of the holocaust. The ACLU is providing
legal counsel for the neo-Nazi group in its efforts to
demonstrate in Skokie.
Faced with a small, hostile audience of about 50
persons, Hamlin was called a “squeaky-clear WASP”
and accused of smiling when the word “swastika” was
spoken. After the meeting, he was followed to his car
by a young man shouting other uncomplimentary remarks.
Hamlin told the crowd that he fully understood
their animosity to a concept as “repugnant”as antiSemitism, but that he also resents “being called a
squeaky-clean liberal and having my conscience questioned. "
"THE ACLU reconsiders this (Nazi) question
about every 10 minutes,” he said. “If we really just
wanted a textbook case, we wouldn’t send representatives to forums like this.”
Hamlin and the ACLU maintain that “the Village
of Skokie engages in an act of censorship“ in trying to
prevent a public demonstration by the Nazis.
After a threatened May 1 Nazi march, Skokie trustees passed three ordinances prohibiting marchers
from wearing military-style uniforms, distributing ma-
terials which incite group hatred and requiring those
wishing to assemble in the village to post $350,000 insurance bond.
“All ideas must be available for all to listen to...we
citizens can then pick, choose, and reject,” Hamlin
said. “Removing an idea is unconstitutional and whatever the good intentions of the village of Skokie, they
are withdrawing an idea,”
Hamlin claimed that first amendment protections
result in a “magnificently simple system..if Skokie
and the Nazis have taught nothing else...they have
taught that there is no political base for the Nazi party
in Greater Chicago.”
According to Leval, the real first amendment question is whether the Nazi march represents an idea or
an assault.
“You must realize we’re not talking about free
speech...this group is seeking to inflict emotional
harm to a certain group of people, the World War II
holocaust survivors...who have undergone an experience unequalled in history.”
Leval termed a Nazi march “a psychic assault
which would bring to the survivors feelings of anxiety,
terror, shame, guilt, withdrawal, alienation, and a paralyzing sense of helplessness.
LEVAL also disagreed with Hamlin’s contention that
“nothing in the first amendment requires anyone to go
see the Nazis in a public place.” He said that anyone
with the “peculiar makeup” of the survivor would
have uncontrollably violent urges just in knowing that
Nazis were parading up and down the streets of Skokie, “the Skokie which had become a haven to them.”
To Gellman, the overall Nazi issue is not as much
as the issue of “Who should argue the Nazi case?”
“It is not the responsibility of a Jew to argue the
case of our murderers,” he said, referring to ACLU attorney David Goldberger who is chief counsel for the
Nazis.
According to Hamlin, Goldberger took the case be-
cause time was pressing, no private practitioner volunteered for the job, and both ACLU attorneys in the
Chicago office happen to be Jewish.
While the entire situation is, “like every other ethical question not black or white,” Gellman criticized
the ACLU leadership for throwing off their personal
feelings, backgrounds, and cultures to defend the Nazis.
Democracy does not work by having an individual
masquerading as a disinterested party-rather, it
works through representation by “intensely interested,
prejudiced individuals,” he said.
While claiming to have respect for the ACLU for
its courage and consistency, Gellman questioned the
idea that there is such a thing as “disinterested advocate” and attacked the “moral schizophrenia caused
by denial of real personal issues.
“I believe there are commitments we hold-to the
first amendment, to life, to certain senses of decency,
to the family, and to being Jews.”
STATING THAT the first amendment is often used
as a shield from criticism, Gellman asserted that those
who believe in a cause or a philosophy should be the
ones to stand up and take the political consequences
for what they say.
Smith proposed that “the first amendment is not
absolute...it doesn’t give the right to do whatever you
well please. No one has the right to incite a riot by
playing on the emotions of people who have suffered
enough.”
He totally discounted the idea that the Jews of
Skokie, in opposing a Nazi demonstration, would be
willing “to diminish the Constitution and its amendments.”
“For the first time in 3,000 years or longer, for the
first time in the history of the Jewish people, they are
living under a set of laws which allows them to own
property, take the profession of their choice, run a business and enjoy the fruit of their labors without worrying about pogroms, confiscations, or other horrors.
Would these people diminish this beautiful set of laws
which gives them the right to live like everyone else?”
he asked.
“We are dealing in human emotions that no one
who was not there could understand,” Smith said.
“Twenty-six million people were killed in the war people entered to repute Nazism--Nazism stands for death, destructions, and murder.”
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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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More Nazi debate : Censure ACLU position
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Dubey, Diane
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A panel discussion is held, by the B'nai B'rith Women, on the threat of a National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) march in Skokie. Panelists include David Hamlin, Albert Smith, Marc Gellman, and Gerard Leval.
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9/29/1977
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Gellman, Marc (Rabbi)
Hamlin, David
Leval, Gerard
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Hamlin quitting
as ACLU leader
after Nazi case
By Bob Olmstead
Davi d M. Hamlin, who
headed the Illinois division of
the American Civil Liberties
Union during its membership
crisis prompted by support of
American Nazis, is resigning
effective Oct. 15.
Hamlin, 33, said, “I am
leaving of my own free will.”
He said he intends to “arrange not to have a job for a
while” so he can spend time
writing about “a variety of
things that intrigue me,” including the ACLU’s controversial legal battle to enable
Frank Collin’s National Socialist Party of America to rally
in heavily Jewish Skokie.
Hamlin, who is not a lawyer, said his position has had
the unwavering support of the
state ACLU’s board of directors during a time when helping the Nazis cost it up to 25
per cent of its membership.
The ordeal, he said, “cer-
tainly took its toll. Part of my
desire to resign has to do with
the fatigue of the past 18
months. However, I certainly
am not disenchanted over
anything to do with my job or
the path the ACLU took.”
In the first two weeks after
the ACLU announced its legal
representation of the Nazis,
Hamlin said, he answered a
steady stream of calls by
gry members, followed by
DAVID M. HAMLIN
“hundreds and hundreds of
letters of resignation.”
“The ACLU leadership understood, but a lot of ACLU
members disagreed with the
position,” he said. “And the
public, at least at first, disagreed that the Nazis had
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>
<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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Hamlin quitting as ACLU leader after Nazi case
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Olmstead, Bob
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David Hamlin, Illinois division head of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announces his resignation. Includes photograph of David Hamlin.
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8/8/1978
Subject
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American Civil Liberties Union
Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Hamlin, David
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Chicago Sun-Times, Tuesday, August 8, 1978, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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Former ACLU
director's book
knocks Skokie
By DIANE DUBEY
Staff Writer
AFTER READING the latest
analysis of the Skokie-Nazi conflict,
one may wonder whether being subjected to the literary version of Skokie’s 1 ½-year trauma might not be
more painful than having lived
through that period.
For those who yearn to chronicle
such episodes, perhaps the worst
thing about the neo-Nazi demonstration that never was is that it didn’t
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leave much to write about. Few legal precedents were set, no new or
surprising theories were offered by
the courts, and the damned march
never even took place.
The early months of 1979 brought
“Defending My Enemy: American
Nazis, the Skokie Case, and the
Risks of Freedom,” a creditable
work by Aryeh Neier, a Holocaust
survivor and survivor also of eight
years as national executive director
of the American Civil Liberties
Union.
Neier examined the Skokie case
by setting forth the thesis that a
small neo-Nazi movement in the United States is a positive force for the
Jewish community, a deterrent to
the expression of anti-Semitism by
more palatable groups and a constant reminder to Jews and Christians, alike, of the need to safeguard
the rights of a people which has
been through the Holocaust.
EARLY 1981 will bring another
book on the Skokie-Nazi conflict, a
book by someone so intimately involved with the 1 ½-year event that
he would be expected to add new insight to a subject already tapped by
almost every general-interest publication in the country.
But “The Nazi/Skokie Conflict,”
subtitled “A Civil Liberties Battle,”
to be published in February by Beacon Press, hardly represents the
best of which David Hamlin, former
executive director of the Illinois
ACLU, is capable.
As the weeks and months of
court battles dragged on through
1977 and the first half of 1978, Hamlin provided accurate explanations
to the press of each court’s ruling,
often giving both the ACLU and the
Village of Skokie’s side of each issue when the village chose not to
comment.
One would assume that Hamlin’s
consideration and cooperation were
reciprocated --the ACLU generally
was treated fairly in ongoing newspaper accounts of the controversy
and no complaints about the coverage were made by Hamlin at the
time.
Yet, a recurring theme of his
book and of speeches he has given
since mid-1978 is the irresponsibility
of the press and the reporters’ lust
for the sensational.
Hamlin’s book certainly is not
sensational --it is dull, if one must
find a one-word modifier - but,
ironically it reads like one lo ,
slanted newspaper article.
LIKE NEIER, Hamlin apparently sets out to show that everyone
wins when First Amendment rights
are upheld. Unlike Neier, he offers
only a week-by-week account of the
conflict, gives few interesting anecdotes and tells the readers nothing
they couldn’t have learned from
those nasty, sensational newspaper
articles.
Hamlin has no compelling hypothesis and he is not as articulate
�in print as he is verbally. But he
does show that he is not above giving the Village of Skokie a few jabs
when he gets a chance.
Skokie has had its share of socalled image problems lately, and it
takes no great intellect to add to
them. But Hamlin can’t resist:
“The village has a unique architectural style, a varied collection of
structures which might be called
‘postwar slapdash.’ Skokie grew in
the postwar economic and population booms, and the men who built
the community did so with a high
regard for the enormous housing demand at the time. To accommodate
as many buyers and renters as possible, extra buildings were squeezed
onto some blocks, a feat accomplished by placing one or more of
the buildings sideways, facing the
adjacent building.
“At the same time, the developers managed to bring several
styles to a single street. It is therefore possible to motor through Skokie passing golden arches, large red
hot-dog signs, orange and red restaurants, large well-lighted pink coffee cups, and a residential street
along which sit a natural wood
ranch, a white brick duplex, and a
three-story apartment building with
a blue and green mosaic tile facade.”
HIS ASSESSMENT of Skokie’s
political leanings is equally deprecating and, seemingly, based on
quite a few inaccuracies.
Informing readers that “a portion of the village lies in the “Tenth
Illinois Congressional District,”
Hamlin decides that “Skokie’s local
(Continued on page 3)
FORMER ACLU Executive Director David Hamlin has written a book
about Skokie’s 1977-78 struggle to avert a Nazi march in the village.
Above is a picture of a demonstration held during that period.
�Hamlin’s book is dull, has flaws
(Continued from page 1)
politics are, not surprisingly, less
bombastic and less liberal than the
tenth itself.”
Actually, all of Skokie lies in the
10th, and all but the least informed
of suburban political spectators
realize that Skokie and adjacent
Evanston provide the center of liberal politics for the 10th District,
Large margins in Niles Township, where Skokie is located, and in
Evanston Township provided former U.S. Rep. Abner Mikva with the
votes he needed to overcome the
more Republican conservative communities in other parts of the 10th
district.
Although Hamlin, perhaps for
the first time in print, says he and
ACLU attorney David Goldberger
should have been more sympathetic
to the plight of Skokie residents who
are Holocaust survivors and although his explanation of the ACLU
position is clear and rational, his
book has serious flaws.
IT IS WRITTEN as an historical
account of what happened in 1977-78,
but only the ACLU activities and beliefs have been researched and described. Goldberger is quoted at
length in each courtroom scene;
Skokie attorneys are occasionally
paraphrased, occasionally ignored.
A sarcastic and patronizing tone
throughout the first half of the book
is interrupted only for a paragraph
or two of ACLU-inspired back-patting: Sharing a “love affair with the
First Amendment,” Hamlin and
Goldberger “quickly established a
trusting, respectful relationship,
which was occasionally noisy but always harmonic.”
It is understandable that Hamlin
would laud the ACLU’s courage and
determination in defending the neoNazis in the First Amendment case
against Skokie; indeed, that organization did an admirable job which
would not have been taken on by a
more establishment-oriented agency.
But, just as the ACLU argues
that the cause of democracy is aided by the airing of all points of
view, so might the ACLU’s position
have been more compelling if equal
attention had been given to the other side.
If Hamlin had wanted only to
write about his organization’s role
in the Skokie case, he should have
done so. But once he decided to contrast the two sides, he had an obligation to document the village’s
case as well as he does his own.
For the greater part of the book,
Skokie officials and Jewish groups
opposing the march are depicted as
a bunch of lunatics who are not intelligent enough or sane enough to
understand the issues. The one exception to this characterization is
Hamlin’s interpretation of Village
Attorney Harvey Schwartz who, the
author implies, is bright enough to
understand that the ACLU position
is right, but must serve a village
full of crazies by pandering to their
fascist tendencies and trying to avert the march.
HAMLIN ALSO ACCEPTS at
face value the cast of characters
which was formed in the course of
the conflict. Before one writes a
book, isn’t it natural to examine the
motives and background of the
main characters? Is he really describing community leaders or is he
making leaders out of those who
temporarily were thrust - or forced
their way -- into positions of leadership?
Fred Richter was the leader of
"It is possible to
motor through Skokie passing golden
arches, large red
hot-dog signs, orange and red resta uran ts, large
lighted pink coffee
cups, and a residential street along
which sit a natural
wood ranch, a white
brick duplex, and a
three-story apartment building with
a blue and green
mosaic tile facade. "
- David Hamlin.
the organized Jewish community
within the village, Hamlin writes,
and a woman named Erma (sic)
Ganz (sic) was a leader of a group
called Combined Jewish Citizens.
These two individuals, along with
Holocaust survivor Sol Goldstein,
are the folks Hamlin extrapolates to
be representative of the Skokie community in 1977-78.
To this day, it would be safe to
wager that 99 percent of all Skokians do not know who Fred Richter
is. Erna Gans was president of a
B’nai B’rith chapter comprising
hundreds of Holocaust survivors,
but just who are Concerned Jewish
Citizens? Is that a group which represents Skokie Jews, or is it a
group which was convenient to refer
to because its members got a little
publicity one day? There are many
recognized organizations in Skokie
and the Chicago area which represent virtually every viewpoint expressed by the Jewish community
during the Nazi conflict. Why are
their members not quoted?
SOMETIMES IT IS BEST to let
one’s actions tell the whole story. As
an ACLU executive director, David
Hamlin’s conduct was exemplary. It
was a delight to hear him describe
his organization’s struggle against
popular opinion to defend the basis
of democracy and free speech in
this country.
His help was invaluable, his explanations totally accurate. For
nearly 1½ years, David Hamlin was
at the mercy of his organization’s
members, of reporters from all over
the world, and of hostile cranks.
He survived and the First
Amendment survived and both deserve a lot of credit. But it is sad
that, at a time when civil liberties
in this country again are threatened, when spokesmen are needed
to champion the rights of women,
minorities and the poor, David
Hamlin has retired from the public
eye and moved to California - to
become a writer.
�
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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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Former ACLU director's book knocks Skokie
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Unfavorable review of David Hamlin's book on his involvement in the National Socialist Party of America's (Nazi) attempt to march in Skokie. The book is titled: The Nazi/Skokie Conflict: A Civil Liberties Battle
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11/30/1980
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Hamlin, David
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As Nazi demonstration approaches
March hinges on Marquette deal
promise, we don’t want one march or
one rally. We want the right to speak
SKOKIE- Village officials appar- at any Chicago park, especially Marently no longer have the power to stop quette Park, as often as we want.
a neo-Nazi march on Sunday June 25.
“We have no reason to go to SkoRichard Tedor, spokesman for the kie-we won’t do any recruiting, we
National Socialist Party of America may get hurt, and we’re not looking for
(NSPA) told The LIFE Tuesday, June a fight or confrontation,” Tedor said.
13, that his group will “definitely come
Hopes of legally averting the demto Skokie” if they are not given per- onstration were killed early this week
mission to demonstrate on Chicago
park district property in a U.S. District
court hearing on Tuesday, June 20.
Skokie Corp. Counsel Harvey
Schwartz said, “there’s nothing more I
Skokie village officials have been
can think of (to do). As things stand
given many suggestions on how to
now there will be a march.”
prevent the Nazi march. Last week one
The right to hold rallies in Chicago
came
parks, particularly in Marquette Park Black.from Niles Township Clerk Louis
The village rejected the suggesnear the NSPA's southwest Chicago
tion and this week Black has demandheadquarters, has been the Nazis’ goal
ed the village rescind the permit
all along, Tedor said.
allowing the Nazi group to march in
A demonstration in Skokie was
Skokie. For more on this story turn to
chosen as a tactical “wedge” to help
page 2.
the group win its rights to free speech,
he said.
Nazi leader Frank Collin has offered to abandon plans for the Skokie
march if given the right to demonwhen the U.S. Supreme Court refused
strate in Chicago, but Tedor qualified
to stay the ruling which permitted the
these promises.
march and when the two bills designed
to prevent the march were defeated in
“WE AREN’T looking for a com- the state legislature.
By a 7-2 vote, the Supreme Court,
Monday June 12, denied a village petition for a stay until the court can hear
the merits of the case involving three
Skokie ordinances enacted to prevent
the march.
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
The ordinances were struck down as
unconstitutional by U.S. District Court
Judge Bernard Decker and his ruling
was later upheld by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Voting
in favor of the stay were Justices William Rehnquist and Harry Blackmun.
ON TUESDAY, June 13, two bills
which had been approved by the state
senate but rejected by the house judiciary committee were turned down for
consideration by the entire house.
House sponsors Rep. Alan Greiman
(D-15th) and Rep. Arthur Telcser (R12th) failed to secure a house vote for
the bills which would have outlawed
public defamation of any ethnic group
and banned demonstrations that might
involve the use of physical violence.
“Now it all goes to Skokie. If the
Nazis do come, we can only hope it will
be peaceful and we will stand proudly
against them,” Greiman said after the
vote Tuesday.
State Sen. John Nimrod (R-4th) senate sponsor of the bill banning violent
demonstrations, said “Anyone who
based their decision on the constitutionality issue is not being a legislator.
It’s the legislature’s job to set policy
and the judiciary’s to interpret it.”
EVEN IF the bills had been ap-
�proved in the state legislature, it is unlikely they could have prevented the
march, according to David Hamlin, executive director of the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) which is providing legal counsel for the Nazis.
“The issues presented by the statutes were already alt with in the
courts,” Hamlin said, and if the bills
had passed, "the ACLU would have
Plans have been made for two different counterdemonstrations on June
25. One march, planned by the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, is
designed to be a peaceful one. The other, planned by the Jewish Defense
League, is designed to be a violent one.
For complete details on both, turn to
page 3.
gone into the federal courts to prevent
their enforcement.”
Informed of Hamlin’s statement,
Skokie Mayor Albert Smith said, “It
seems Mr. Hamlin’s dedication to the
rights of Nazis is only surpassed by his
absolute arrogance.”
Hamlin responded by saying, "It is
sad that the mayor has chosen to attack me on this level.”
HAMLIN EXPLAINED that the
June 20 hearing in federal district
court stems from a conflict between
the NSPA and the Chicago Park district over a required insurance bond
for all public assemblies on park district land.
In August, 1977, a U.S. District
Court ruled the requirement invalid.
Chicago park authorities interpreted
the ruling to mean that the bond was
too high and subsequently reduced the
amount to $60,000.
According to Hamlin, ACLU attorneys on June 20 will ask U.S. District
Court Judge Bernard Decker to honor
a parade permit application by the Nazis for July 9 or to hold the park district in contempt of court.
A $350,000 insurance bond requirement was the basis of one of the Skokie
ordinances struck down by Decker.
TEDOR SAID that behind-thescenes negotiations held under the auspices of the U.S. Justice department’s
community relations service “petered
out” when justice officials would not
agree to put pressure on the Chicago
Park district to permit Nazi assemblies.
He said the officials promised only
to influence the state legislature to defeat the bill against ethnic defamation
if the Nazis would call off their Skokie
march. That bill, authored by State
Sen. Howard Carroll (D-15th) was one
of the two killed Tuesday in the house.
Richard Salem, midwest director of
the community relations service would
say only that his office was trying “to
help identify alternatives to satisfy the
parties involved.”
He insisted, however, that “We’re
not talking about any deal-Chicago
area Jewish leaders and Skokie leadership have made it clear there can be
no trade-offs.”
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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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As Nazi demonstration approaches : March hinges on Marquette deal
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Dubey, Diane
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Richard Tedor, spokesman for the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis), states that his group will march in Skokie if they are not given permission to demonstrate in Marquette Park in Chicago. Relevant court cases are described.
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6/15/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Hamlin, David
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
Tedor, Richard
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On Nazi case
ACLU weathers
storm of abuse
By SCOTT A. ZAMOST
Correspondent
ABUSIVE PHONE calls, letters and resignations
from about 20 members were some of the casualties
the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) suffered in
the days after the aborted Nazi demonstration in Skokie.
Now, nearly three weeks later, th eACLU says the
pressure from outraged citizens at its defense of the
Nazis has subsided and more attention is being given
to other cases. But it acknowledges that some people
will base their judgement of the group solely on this
example.
“I understand the emotions of the folks in Skokie,”
said David Hamlin, executive director of the ACLU’s
Illinois division. “I have discovered that while they
disagree with the stand we’ve taken, they understand
why we’ve done so.”
The ACLU is defending members of the National
Socialist (Nazi) Party of America in challenging an injunction issued April 30 that prohibits them from
marching in Skokie. It is also backing the Nazis in
fighting a Chicago park district ordinance that requires expensive insurance coverage for groups seeking a parade permit.
WHILE HAMLIN said several contributors notified
him that they would no longer support the ACLU, he
doubted the group would sustain significant long-term
damage.
“The pressure was on us for awhile,” Hamlin told
The LIFE. “Now we’ve come through it.”
He reiterated the ACLU’s basic position of vigorously defending First Amendment rights of all individuals and groups and said those rights were in “grave
danger” in Skokie.
Shortly before the attempted Skokie march, Ham lin said the group held a special board of directors
meeting at which about 40 members unanimously voted to continue with the Nazi defense. One member abstained, however, saying he could not approve of such
a stance. About 60 persons serve on the board.
“Internally, there has not been very much dissension,” Hamlin said. “There are a number of people
who have personal difficulties with the position we’ve
taken.”
THE ILLINOIS ACLU’s involvement with the Nazis dates back to the early 1969’s when it defended a
group picketing a Chicago movie theater. The six demonstrators were charged with disorderly conduct and
found guilty.
In 1970, Hamlin said Frank Collin,the local Nazi
leader, approached the ACLU for help in getting a permit to march in Marquette Park. The Chicago Park
District refused to issue one to him but the Seventh
Circuit Court of Appeals later ruled that such action
was an unacceptable form of prior restraint.
“Courts have consistently said you cannot have
prior restraints on people because there might be violHai
ence,” said ACLU national secretary Fran klyn man.
Last summer, police arrested Collin's group while
they marched in Marquette Park. The ACLU again defended them and the disorderly conduct charges were
overturned.
“ABOUT HALF the time the ACLU is in the news,
it’s bound to make people angry,” Haiman said from
his office at Northwestern University in Evanston
where he is a communication studies professor.
He stressed the group believes that the state has
the responsibility to prevent potential violence resulting from a demonstration.
“The theory is if you put out enough force, the
counterdemonstrations will subside,” he said.
And he added that “one has to be pretty broadminded to be a member of the ACLU.”
Said Hamlin, “We are in one sense fire fighters.
We have a tendency to drop other things and concentrate on a particular offense.”
�
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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) receives complaints and resignations from members opposed to their defense of the National Socialist Party of America's (Nazi's) right to march in Skokie.
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5/19/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Hamlin, David
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ACLU blasts new
anti-Nazi ordinances
By SCOTT A. ZAMOST
Correspondent
AN AMERICAN Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) official last week blasted
three anti-Nazi ordinances adopted by
the Skokie village board and predicted
they would be revised to conform with
constitutional standards.
David Hamlin, executive director of
the ACLU’s Illinois division, said a
court would probably rule that two of
the ordinances were “unconstitutionally vague,” adding they “restrain the
First Amendment rights of everybody
in the village.”
He was referring to two ordinances
adopted Monday, May 2, which prohibit demonstrations by members of political parties who wear military-style
uniforms and ban the distribution of
materials that incite group hatred. He
said a third ordinance, which requires
$300,000 liability insurance for groups
of 50 or more persons organizing a parade and public assembly, is too strict.
That law requires an applicant to
file for a parade permit at least 30
days ahead of time.
ALL THREE ordinances were unanimously passed in response to an attempted march Saturday, April 30, by
members of the American Socialist
(Nazi) Party of America. A judge
served two injunctions prohibiting the
group from demonstrating in the village last Saturday and Sunday.
The ACLU is defending the Nazis in
challenging the injunctions.
“When Skokie cools down a bit, they
will probably redraft the ordinances,”
Hamlin told The LIFE Wednesday,
May 4.
However, Corp. Counsel Harvey
Schwartz said the village had no plans
to revise the law.
“The validity of these ordinances
is not tested in the abstract,” he said.
“They are tested in the light of having
to deal with a real problem.
“This government sees military uniforms and the expression of political
causes as inconsistent with the moral
standards of the community,” he said.
That ordinance applies only to
members of political parties who wear
military-style uniforms. It defines pol-
itical party as “an organization existing primarily to influence and deal
with the structure or affairs of government politics or the state.”
“I’ve never seen anything like that
before,” Hamlin said.
THE LAW banning the distribution
of hatred-prone materials includes
wearing “clothing of symbolic significance”-a phrase Hamlin said he considers vague.
“I don’t have any idea what that
means,” he said.
Schwartz said such clothing would
include a Nazi swastika.
“We’re trying to meet a problem
and solve it in the legislative way within the exercise of police powers,” he
said.
While Hamlin said the ACLU
planned no action against the ordinances last week, he did not rule out
future court challenges.
“Before we worry about the ordinances, we want to get that Saturday
injunction lifted,” he said. “That is the
most unconstitutional, the most odious,
and the most frightening.”
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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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ACLU blasts new anti-Nazi ordinances
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An American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) official criticizes 3 ordinances, which would prevent the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) from demonstrating in the Skokie, adopted by the Skokie Village board and predicts that they will be revised.
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5/8/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Hamlin, David
Schwartz, Harvey
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Skokie Life, Sunday, May 8, 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
Courts of last resort -- United States
Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Freedom of speech -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors
National Socialist Party of America
National Socialist Party of America -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Goldstein, Sol
Hamlin, David
Torshen, Jerome H.
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eng
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newspaper clippings