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Skokie stars in
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By HOPE SAIDEL
Skokie village officials were caught by
surprise when Sun-Times columnist Gary
Deeb announced Tuesday that filming of a
CBS docu-drama, "Skokie," will begin
Nov. 14, just two days before the dedication of the newly-renovated village hall.
The f ilm will recount the confrontation
between the village and the National Socialist Party, a neo-Nazi group that attempted to march through the village in
1977 and again in 1978.
The production company is Titus Prod uctions, according to the Illi nois Film
council, and shooting will begin in Skokie
and Chicago next month . The producers of
the film, Herbert Brodkin and Robert
Berger were responsible for the production of "Holocaust."
Deeb reported that Danny Kaye will
•play a concentration camp survivor who
lives in Skokie, and is based on a combina tion of several people living in the vil lage.
Skokie Mayor Albert Smith will be
played by Ed Flanders, and Eli Wallach
will play the part of Skokie Corporation
Counsel Harvey Schwartz. Schwartz told
the NEWS he was disappointed with the
casting. "I really thought that Robert Redford or Burt Reynolds would be a better
choice," Schwartz said.
Schwartz said that his and the village
staff's primary concern is how the village
will be portrayed in the movie, and if the
production of the film will ca use a public
disturbance, especially since actors will
appear dressed in Naz i garb.
" CBS nas the right to make the movie, "
Schwartz said, again expressing his concern over the film's treatment of the vil lage, and whether the village' s· coopera·
tion in controlling crowds and traffic w ill
be required.
Although Deeb reported that the "princi·
pal characters in fhe real-life melodrama"
were provided with advance scripts, none
of the village officials including Village
Manager Robert Eppley, said they had
seen one, although Mayor Smith was out·
of-town and unavailable for comment.
According to the Deeb, the focus of the
film will be on the constitutional issues
that arose from the Nazi threat to march in
the village. David Goldberger, the Ameri·
can Civil Liberties Union lawyer who de·
fended the Nazis' right of free speech, will
be played by John Rubinstein, a Tony·
'award winning actor.
•
Although the Nazis never appeared in
the village, the planned date of the march
brought members of the Jewish Defense
League from New York, and demonstrations against the Nazis were held at the vil lage hall. Outdoor scenes will include the
hall, even though it has been renbvated
since the incident.
Apparently Berger felt that the issue
was of interest nationally. Deeb reported
Berger said that when he was promoting
"Holocaust" in 1978, cocktail party conversation shifted to Skokie. "I heard Intel·
ligent people battling over whether the
Nazis had a right to march," Berger told
Deeb. "That told me it would make a won·
derful drama."
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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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Filming for made-for-television movie recounting "the confrontation between the village and the National Socialist Party, a neo-Nazi group that attempted to march through the village in 1977 and again in 1978" to begin filming in the Village on November 14, 1980. The production company is Titus Productions and the producers are Herbert Brodkin and Rober Berger. Danny Kaye will play a concentration camp survivor, Ed Flanders will play Mayor Albert Smith, and Eli Wallach will play Corporation Counsel Harvey Schwartz.
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Skokie (Ill.) -- Demonstration, 1977 -- Drama
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National Socialist Party of America
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CBS recaps a slice of life in ‘Skokie’
By SUZANNE WEISS
Skokie: to some it was just a suburb
west of Evanston. To some, it meant home.
To the rest of the nation, Skokie was only a
dot on the Illinois map-until the spring of
1977.
That was when Frank Collin, local
leader of the National Socialist Party of
America, announced plans to march his
men, in uniform, through the streets of the
town. The proposed date, May 30, was Memorial Day.
Collin made no attempt to disguise the
fact that his organization was a latter-day
version of the Nazi Party. The target,
Skokie, is the home of a large number of
Jews, many of them survivors of Hitler’s
concentration camps. The whole thing was
a volatile combination that eventually exploded into a test of our national attitudes,
our local governments and our constitutional guarantees.
FOR MEN LIKE Max Feldman, it was
even more. The very thought of a swastika
in the streets of the haven they had found
after the Nazi horror evoked memories too
painful to endure. It had taken more than
30 years for the wounds to heal over; it was
inconceivable for them to be opened again.
Some of the participants are real, Al
Smith, the beleaguered mayor of the village, and the police chief and American
Civil Liberties Union attorneys who wound
up carrying the ball - or fumbling it, depending on where your sympathies fell.
Feldman is a fictional character, played by
Danny Kaye.
“Skokie,” a two-hour-plus CBS madefor-TV film depicting the events, will air at
8 p.m. Tuesday on Channel 2. In addition to
Kaye, the special stars Kim Hunter as his
wife, John Rubinstein, Eli Wallach, Carl
Reiner and Lee Strasberg in a cameo.
Their performances, and those of the rest
of the large cast, vary from disappointing
(Reiner, Strasberg) to adequate (Hunter,
Wallach) to terrific (Rubenstein). Kaye,
called upon to carry the burden of the dramatic scenes, runs the gamut of all three.
THE REAL STAR is the story itself;
the most compelling scenes are those in
the streets and offices and courtrooms of
the town. While the semi-fictional tale of
the survivor who is determined never
again to stand idly by as his world is falling
apart; his wife, who would rather lie on her
bed and listen to Brahms than face an unthinkable reality, and their daughter, more
concerned with getting her driver’s license
and going to a rock concert than “how
Grandma Ida died,” is an acceptable, even
a necessary dramatic device, it pales be-
side the documentary aspects of the actual
event.
A shot of the Nazi motorcade speeding
down the Eisenhower, swastikas fluttering
in the breeze, is more chilling than any actor’s soliloquoy. The strident “Never
again” repeatedly screamed out at a village meeting by an angry member of the
militant Jewish Defense League is more
stirring than a bucket of Hunter’s tears.
And, as the assembled counter-demonstrators break into “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”
on hearing that Collin has been turned back
by a court order at the Skokie exit ramp,
you may shed a few tears of your own.
COMPELLING, TOO, IS the dilemma
faced by Rubenstein, as a Jewish ACLU attorney who must reconcile his personal
loyalties with his intellectual and professional conviction regarding the First
Amendment. He defends Collin-seeking
every loophole and advantage to be found
within the law-in the face of ostracism
and harassment from, not only the Jewish
community, but every radical fringe group
around seeking to get into the act.
The second half of the overlong drama
focuses on this aspect of the story. ACLU
financial support falls off dramatically,
first locally, then on a national level as the
litigation escalates to stop a second
planned march, this one on Yom Kippur,
the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
The legal and intellectual arguments
that began in the synagogues and administrative offices of Skokie reach as far as
the U.S. Supreme Court.
THE REAL POINT of the controversy
must give us pause. As expressed by CBS,
“Can the constitutional guarantees of free
speech for an individual -no matter how
reprehensible his beliefs -be curtailed in
order to protect the well-being of the entire
community?” or, as Rubenstein puts it, in
the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, "
‘freedom for the thought we hate.’ "
And it is difficult, even for the hardened
critic, to fault the handling of this aspect of
the tale. Not only is Rubenstein totally believable as the young lawyer torn between
two masters, but most of the others involved -Ed Flanders in a sympathetic
portrayal of Mayor Smith, Brian Dennehy
as the police chief and Wallach as the village attorney-ring as true. The exception
is Strasberg, famed teacher of actors, who
delivers the lines of a disappointed ACLU
board member like a robot -albeit a Jewish robot.
Robot-like, too, at times, is Kaye, especially in the scenes with his family as he
tugs at the heartstrings in the assumed accents of the survivor. Far better is he in his
rage, as he bares the tatoo on his arm and
asks the would-be pacifiers: “Can you
know what is a Nazi?”
CARL REINER is the man to whom he
puts the question. Playing a B’nai B’rith
Anti-Defamation League exec who hopes
that ignoring the Nazis will make them go
away, the former funnyman performs with
the conviction of a wind-up toy. It is said
that Reiner has 11 Emmies on his shelf. It
is doubtful that this show will give him an
even dozen.
George Dzundza is the perfect stereotype of a neo-Nazi in the unpopular role of
Collin. Paradoxically, one would wish him
a few more human qualities but, perhaps,
at least according to the scriptwriters, he
really doesn’t deserve any.
And author Ernest Kinoy must take a
lot of the blame for much of what is wrong
with "Skokie." Fortunately, the event itself and the wonderful faces of the extras,
many of whom are your neighbors, in locations where it really all happened, will
transcend the difficulties in the script.
“Skokie” may not bethe finest TV
drama done by the award-winning team of
Herbert Brodkin and Robert Berger
(“Holocaust”) but, for area residents on
Tuesday, it should be the only show in
town.
DANNY KAYE MAKES his TV dramatic debut as a Holocaust survivor determined to teach his family that history will not be repeated in Skokie.
�THE REAL DRAMA of “Skokie”
takes place in t:he streets and the
courtrooms. Here, the village attorney, played by Eli Wallach (left) and
John Rubenstein as lawyer for the
ACLU, battle it out before the bench.
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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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CBS recaps a slice of life in 'Skokie'
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Weiss, Suzanne
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Mixed review of made-for-television movie "Skokie." Includes photograph of Danny Kaye and photograph of Eli Wallach and John Rubenstein.
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11/12/1981
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Skokie (Ill.) -- Demonstration, 1977 -- Drama
Skokie (Motion picture)
Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Holocaust survivors -- Illinois -- Skokie
Kaye, Danny
Rubenstein, John
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"SKOKIE" CBS CHANNEL 2 - 7:00 P.M.
NOVEMBER 17, 1981
Freedom of speech is one of the most precious liberties
guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States. Because of this protection, intellectual freedom
abounds and all Americans have the right to communicate their
opinions and beliefs in the marketplace of ideas. Still,
throughout our history, some concerned citizens have argued
that it is necessary to limit the rights of those who advocate
racism, fascism, sexism, and other obnoxious views. The government, these individuals assert, can and should make exceptions
to the universal rule of free speech.
First Amendment rights are easier to affirm in theory than to
support in practice. This reality was made clear in 1977 when
Frank Coilin, head of the Chicago-based National Socialist
Party of America, determined to hold a Neo-Nazi rally in the
heavily Jewish suburb of Skokie, Illinois. During the eighteen
months between the time when Coilin sent his first request to the
village for a permit to demonstrate until the final court decisions
were handed down, the Skokie/Nazi confrontation was a civil
liberties battle of epic proportions.
The debate is sure to continue following the broadcast of
"Skokie" on the CBS Television Network on October 13.
(Please check local listings to confirm the date and time in your
area.) This drama special depicts the events which took place in
Skokie during 1977 and 1978. Some of the characters' names have
been changed, and some fictional characters have been created.
But the events are portrayed essentially as they happened. The
screenplay by Ernest Kinoy effectively conveys both the unswerving commitment of those who defended the First Amendment
rights of the Nazis and the strong passion of those who were
convinced that guarantees of freedom of expression do not apply
to groups who would end this right for others.
Herbert Wise directs a large and distinguished cast including
Danny Kaye, John Rubinstein, Carl Reiner, Eli Wallach, Ed
Flanders, Lee Strasberg, Charles Levin, James Sutorius, George
Dzundza, Marin Kanter, and Kim Hunter. "Skokie" is produced by Titus Productions, Inc. ("Holocaust"). Herbert Brodkin
is the executive producer, and Robert Berger is the producer.
ABOUT THIS VIEWER'S GUIDE
"Freedom," wrote Leslie Lipson in The Great Issues of
Politics, "is what the people earn and guard for themselves."
Principles such as the right to free speech are abstractions—they
become meaningful only when given life in flesh-and-blood
situations. "Skokie" presents television viewers with an opportunity to test their knowledge, understanding, and appreciation
of the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech. The section
of this guide titled' 'For or Against'' summarizes the positions of
the various parties during the Skokie/Nazi dispute. The discussion questions, then, encourage individuals and groups to
grapple with the many issues raised in the drama.
The section on "Holocaust Survivors and Their Families"
provides an occasion for viewers to respond to the moral values
behind the stands taken by Skokie's Jewish citizens.
The final section suggests projects which seem to flow naturally out of viewing and discussing "Skokie." These exercises are
appropriate for classroom use or for individuals interested in new
lifelong learning projects.
THE EVENTS
• Cotlln announces he will
demonstrate In Skokie on April 30.
• Judge Haiold Sullivan expands
Judge Woslk's order banning the
Nails from parading In Skokie
"until further notice of the court"
(Thto chronology of the key events
tn the controversy hss been compiled from Th« Nuzi/Skokit Conflict
by Dewfd Hamlin, who wan the
Executive Director of the Illinois
Olvleton of the American Civil
libertlee Union In 1877 • 1078.)
• In February, 1977, Frank Coilin,
head of the National Socialist
Party of America, writes the
Trustees of the Park District of the
Village of Skokie requesting a permit to hold a Neo-Nazi rally there.
• The Board of Trustees of the
Skokie Park District Informs Coilin
that he will have tb provide a bond
or Insurance In the amount of
$350,000 before he will be Issued a
permit to demonstrate In one of
Skokie's parks.
• Coilin Informs the Skokie
Village Council that he and his
followers will protest the Insurance
bond requirement on May 11n front
of the Skokie Village Hall.
• On April 27, the Village of
Skokie asks for a court order to bar
Coilin from demonstrating.
• Coilin calls the Illinois Division
of the American Civil Liberties
Union and aska them to defend
him against this violation of his
right to free speech and assembly.
They agree to take his ease.
• Cook County Chancery Judge
Joseph Wosfk issues an Injunction
barring Coilin and the National
Socialist Party of America from
parading in uniform In Skokie on
Mayl.
e The ACLU files an appeal with
the Illinois Appellate Court The
court denlet the appeal.
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THE STORY
When Mayor Smith (Ed Flanders) and Ben Silverman (Eli
Wallach), the town lawyer, learn that Frank Coilin (George
Dzundza) is planning to hold a Neo-Nazi demonstration in
Skokie, they organize a series of community meetings. They
hope to calm the public but soon discover that their constituents
will not tolerate Nazis in Skokie. The town leaders set in motion a
series of legal roadblocks to keep Coilin and his followers out.
Max Feldman (Danny Kaye), a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, speaks for many of Skokie's Jews when he declares
that he will resist any Neo-Nazis who come to demonstrate in
their village. Just the thought of brown-shirted troopers wearing
swastikas terrorizes Max's wife Bertha (Kim Hunter). The crisis
forces the Feldmans to discuss with their teenage daughter Janet
(Marin Kanter) something they have always avoided—their
experiences in the Holocaust. She, in turn, struggles to come to
terms with her own identity as separate from their legacy of
suffering.
Herb Lewisohn (John Rubinstein), the lawyer from the
American Civil Liberties Union who represents Frank Coilin,
sees the case as a clear-cut challenge to the First Amendment.
Both he and Aryeh Neier (Stephen Newman), the National
Executive Director of the ACLU, bear an additional
burden—they are Jews criticized for defending anti-Semites.
• On May 2, the Skokie Village
Council passes three ordinances
aimed at Coilin: (1) requiring a
permit for any parade of 50 or more
In Skokie, to be acquired only after
giving the village 30 days advance
notice and proving possession of
1350,000 worth of liability
Insurance, (2) forbidding the public
display of "symbols offensive to
the community" and parades by
military organizations In "military
style" uniforms, and (3) banning
the distribution of literature
containing "group libel."
• On May 4, the Illinois Board of
the ACLU deckles to continue their
Involvement In the case,
• The Illinois Supreme Court
declines to hear an appeal about
the expanded Injunction until the
Appellate Court rules.
• On June 14, the Supreme Court
of the United States rules that any
citizen subject to prior restraint of
speech is entitled to have that
restraint either reviewed or
removed Immediately. The Illinois
courts are ordered to hear
arguments on Skokie's Injunction.
• On Jury 8, the Appellate Court
leaves the Injunction In force by
changing the ban from wearing
uniforms to carrying swastikas.
The ACLU appeala to the Illinois
Supreme Court
• Several Jewish groups file a
"survivor suit" against Coliln
claiming that a demonstration by
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Infliction of emotion*! harm") on
Holocaust aurvivore residing In the
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Supreme Court finds that the
Injunction preventing Coilln from
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unconstitutional. Tha court
dismisses the aurvtvor auli
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Court Judge Barnard Dackar f inda
Skokie's three ordinances to ba In
violation of ma United Stataa
Supreme Court's dletata.
David Hamiin (James Sutorius), the Executive Director of the
Illinois Division of the ACLU, stands with Lewisohn, even
though the organization loses many members and large contributions because of their defense of Collin's rights.
Abbot Rosen (Carl Reiner) of the Anti-Defamation League of
the B'nai B'rith at first recommends that Jews in Skokie ignore
the Neo-Nazi demonstration, thus denying them the media attention they want. As the controversy deepens, however, the ADL
joins with other Jewish groups to bring a "survivor suit" against
Collin. Rabbi Steinberg (Charles Levin), a local rabbi, counsels
nonviolence while Wendy Raskin (Robin Bartlett) of the Jewish
Defense League advocates confrontation with the Neo-Nazis.
Other clergy in Skokie show their solidarity with the Jews by
supporting them against the proposed demonstration.
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I. FOR OR AGAINST?
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more
imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the
principle of free thought—not free thought for those who
agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
— Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
1. What position did you take ar the beginning of the drama?
Did you ever find yourself identifying with the other side? With
whom did you stand in the end?
2. What blind spots on the issues does Max Feldman
demonstrate? Herb Lewisohn? Abbot Rosen? Others? Who
seems most self-righteous in the drama? Do you think anyone
could have compromised to bring about more understanding
during the battle?
3. The following arguments were used by those opposed to
allowing the Neo-Nazis to demonstrate in Skokie. Do you agree
or disagree with them? What other arguments would you use?
(a) Nazis wearing swastikas in a predominantly Jewish
community are, in effect, falsely shouting "FIRE" in
a theatre. Such speech is not protected by the First
Amendment.
(b) Fascists in America have no right to free speech since
they are out to overthrow democracy.
(c) The demonstration should not be allowed because it
would create unlawful violence; the Nazis would incite the crowd to riot.
(d) Fascist dogma—speech without any redeeming social
value—is obscene and ought not to be protected by
the First Amendment.
4. What is the "doctrine of fighting words"? What is a
"heckler's veto"? How are they relevant to the Skokie cases?
5. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will
never hurt me." Have you found this rhyme to be true?
6. Do you agree with the ACLU's contention that if you fail to
protect even the most odious and unpopular speech, you risk
undermining all free speech?
7. According to the ACLU, no group is entitled to decide for
the larger community that any ideas are so lacking in merit as to
be excluded from the public forum. Do you subscribe to this
principle? Has there ever been censorship of free speech in your
community?
8. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote: "A
function of free speech under our system of government is to
invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purposes when it
induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfactions with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger/' Relate this
thought to "Skokie."
9. Do you think there is a point at which free speech should be
limited?
II. HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AND THEIR FAMILIES
Our humanity remains tragically tied to the inhumanity we
oppose and endure,
— Terrence Des Pres, author o/The Survivor
1. In a speech to Skokie's Jewish community, Aryeh Neicr
quotes Albert Camus: "Freedom is the concern of the oppressed
and her natural protectors have always come from among the
oppressed." Have you found this to be true? What point is Neier
trying to make?
2. When do you identify with the Holocaust survivors in
Skokie the most? Have you ever experienced an instance when a
generally stated antagonism felt like a personal attack upon you?
How did you respond?
3. What motivates Max Feldman to make such a strong stand
against the proposed Neo-Nazi demonstration? Is there any truth
in his daughter's criticism of him?
4. If you were Bertha Feldman's best friend, how would you
pull her out of her depression and fear?
5. Growing up the daughter of concentration camp survivors
is like carrying "a terrible time bomb," says Helen Epstein in her
book Children of the Holocaust. How does this apply to Janet
Feldman?
6. "What preserves the Jew's separateness," writes historian
Peter Gay, "is far less his ancient religion or some distinct culture
than his terrible memories; it is Hitler who has defined the
modern Jew and continues to define him from the grave." Has
the Holocaust replaced religious observance as the source of
Jewish identity?
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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, CBS Channel 2 - 7:00PM, Nov. 17, 1981 Viewer's Guide
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A Viewer's Guide for the television movie, "Skokie," which aired on CBS on November 17, 1981. The Guide provides an introduction, describes historical events relating to Skokie and the proposed march by the National Socialist (Nazi) Party, a summary of the TV movie, and discussion questions.
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11/17/1981
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Skokie (Ill.) -- Demonstration, 1977 -- Drama
Skokie (Motion picture)
Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Holocaust survivors -- Illinois -- Skokie
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2004.002.078.pdf
Skokie Historical Society 2004.002.078
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eng
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1970s (1970-1979)
1980s (1980-1989)
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2 p.
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Original item from the collection of the Skokie Historical Society
skokie movie
tv movie