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Skokie heaves sigh of relief
By Dennis Byrne
Political and religious leaders expressed
relief Friday that Sunday’s scheduled Nazi
march in Skokie has been called off.
“What has happened is now history,” said
village president Albert J. Smith. “But I
would be remiss if I did not express the
gratitude of every Skokie resident for the
magnificent outpouring of support we received from both Christians and Jews from
around the world.
“Today we look forward to a return to
peace and tranquility - long a hallmark of
the Skokie lifestyle. . . . We are thankful for
this decision and equally proud of our village’s unwavering stand on the issue involved.
“Rabbi Hayim G. Perelmuter resident of
the Chicago Board of Rabbis, said there may
have been at least one useful outcome of the
threatened march.
“It was an affront to constructive forces
everywhere - not just against the Jews,” he
said. “If that lesson was learned, then it may
have served a useful purpose.”
With the threat of the march gone in the
heavily Jewish suburb, residents went about
getting their lives back to normal.
IT WASN’T JUST the threat of the march
that bothered these private people. There
was the media attention, with reporters and
photographers sticking microphones, cameras and note pads in their faces, asking
what they thought about the march, what
should be done, what they would do.
And there were the thousands of people,
some peaceful and some apparently bent on
violence, ready to pour into town from all
over the nation. And there was the prospect
of thousands of law enforcement officials
and troops rolling in to set up their security
perimeter and checkpoints.
There was the thought of all this hate and
all these outsiders using their town, stomping across the private perspectives and cherished memories of their own community.
Brown shirts on Lincoln Av., where generations of kids have passed heading for an ice
cream at the corner store on warm summer
days?
Up the street, an old Army tank has
reposed in front of an American Legion post
for as long as most people can remember.
But the threatened march made the thought
of military equipment rolling down the
street real.
LIKE HUNDREDS of other communities
and neighborhoods in the Chicago area, what
is most remarkable about Skokie history is
simply the collective memories and private
perspectives of generations of people.
Skokie began building its own recollections in the late 1800s, when German and
Luxenbourg settlers began draining the
swamps that ran from what is now about
Touhy Av. to the Skokie lagoons. They filled
in the swamps with farms and greenhouses,
providing vegetables and flowers for Chicago. The village itself was incorporated in
1888 as Niles Center, but in 1938 the name
was changed to Skokie, which means
“swamp,” to avoid confusion with the nearby village of Niles.
For years, the population totalled only
several hundred. But things changed in 1926
when the city transit system extended its L
line to Dempster St. and a year later when
Samuel Insull built his Skokie Valley Route
of the old North Shore electrified rail line
through the community. It gave the community excellent transportation, and combined
with widespread real estate speculation going on in many suburbs, people started to
pour in.
Developers subdivided the farm land installing streets, sidewalks and utilities in
anticipation of even a bigger boom. But the
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of real relief
Continued from Page 5
Depression ended the speculation, and tens
of thousands of lots on tree-lined streets
stood vacant until the next boom in the
1950s.
Now, the population in “the world’s largest village” stands at about 66,500. Mostly,
it’s a community of single-family homes,
selling now for an average of about $70,000.
Median family income in 1976 was estimated
at $25,400. Urbanalogist Pierre de Vise, who
periodically lists suburbs by their socioeconomic characteristics, ranked Skokie 37th
last year, compared with 44th in 1970.
THE NAZIS HAD picked Skokie as their
target because of its large Jewish population.
Even so, the Nazis and the media have
sometimes overestimated its size, calling the
community predominantly Jewish. Although
no firm figures are available, the best estimates are that 30 to 40 per cent the population is Jewish.
Also uncertain is the exact number of
Holocaust survivors - either those who
actually survived the Nazi death camps or
those who had close relatives die in the
atrocities - who live in Skokie. It is estimated that, based on surveys of the Jewish
congregations, a remarkable one out of 10
residents of Skokie may be a Holocaust
survivor.
Also without precise explanation is why
so many Jews migrated to Skokie. Rabbi
Karl Weiner of the congregation Judea Mizpah in Skokie pointed out that Jews did not
establish themselves in the community until
after World War II.
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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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Political and religious leaders express relief that the scheduled June 25, 1978 National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) march in Skokie is called off.
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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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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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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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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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
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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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Plan counterdemonstration
Nazi group given permit to march
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
SKOKIE- Village officials have issued a permit allowing a Nazi group to
demonstrate in front of village hall at 3
p.m. Sunday, June 25.
A second permit allowing the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
to stage a counterdemonstration at the
same time and place also will be issued, according to Mayor Albert
Smith.
The village mailed a permit to the
National Socialist (Nazi) Party of
America Friday, May 26, four days after a U.S. appeals court ruled unconstitutional three village ordinances
designed to prevent the march. The
permit, however, can still be rescinded
by judicial or legislative action.
Then, after an executive session fol-
lowing the regular village board meeting Tuesday, May 30, Smith announced
that a permit for a counterdemonstration would be issued to the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
PRIOR TO THE board’s unanimous
decision to allow the counterdemonstration, Sol Goldstein, a Holocaust
survivor, told the LIFE, “I hope we get
the permit tonight--otherwise, we’ll
lose control and there will be chaos,
wildness. People will come anyway
and only an organized demonstration
will solve the problem.”
Goldstein, chairman of the federation’s public affairs committee, said he
expects about 50,000 people from across the country to participate in the
counterdemonstration. According to
Goldstein, leaders of the anti-Nazi
group will “do our utmost to control”
those who show up. “To resist Nazis
means that we must be committed
against violence also,” he said.
After more than a year of legal battles in state and federal courts, the village has nearly exhausted its legal
options. Only two possibilities for averting the June 25 march still remain.
Village attorneys plan this week to
appeal the decision of the appeals
court to the U.S. Supreme court and to
ask for a stay of the lower court decision while the case is pending.
THE MARCH could also be cancelled if the Illinois house of representatives approves two bills which were
approved by the state senate on May
10. One bill would make it illegal to defame any ethnic group, while the other
would ban demonstrations likely to result in physical violence and outlaw the
display of symbols and uniforms having historical associations with violence.
Smith refused to speculate on the likelihood of a June 25 Nazi march because he said, “I don’t want to issue a
challenge to them. I don’t want to back
them into a corner. I’d like to give
them every escape hatch.”
Smith said he still believes the village will ultimately win its case
against the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) which is representing
the Nazis. If the case is accepted by
the Supreme court, new case law regarding the First Amendment will be
put on the books, he said. “I still don’t
believe the First Amendment is absolute,” Smith said.
large amount of publicity accompanying their efforts to enter Skokie. He
pointed to letters and petitions with
more than 1,500 signatures sent in support of the village’s stance in opposing
the march as evidence of a nationwide
backlash against the Nazis.
Reacting to a statement made last
week by Nazi leader Frank Collin who
offered to abandon plans for a Skokie
march if he were legally allowed to
march in Chicago, Smith said “I don’t
make deals with Nazis” and called Collin’s statement a “cop-out.”
According to Erna Gans, leader of a
group of Holocaust survivors, an office
has been established by her organization, the Dr. Janusz Korczak B’nai
B’rith lodge, to handle work related to
the threatened march.
ACCORDING TO Smith, the neo-Nazis actually have been hurt by the
VOLUNTEERS IN the second story
office at 4948 Dempster answer phone
calls and letters from all over the
country from people seeking information or offering support. The office is
also the central headquarters for a nationwide petition drive aimed at the
U.S. Supreme court, Congress, and the
President, asking for protection “from
neo-Nazism and from ideologies that
preach hate and promote hate symbols, so that one-half million Americans and 20 million other innocent
people of every race, creed, religion
and nationality who lost their lives during World War II should not have died
in vain.”
Gans said the petitions will be presented to all three branches of the federal government by a delegation of at
least one person from every state and
as many senators and representatives
as the group can attract.
�
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Plan counterdemonstration : Nazi group given permit to march
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Dubey, Diane
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Skokie officials have issued demonstration permits to both the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) and to the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. Current status of legal battle between Skokie and the Nazis is presented.
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6/1/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors
National Socialist Party of America
Gans, Erna
Goldstein, Sol
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Skokie Life, Thursday, June 1, 1978, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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Skokie battles on in court
Nazis p Ian April 20 Skokie march
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
l Long legal war lies ahead. Charles
Mouratides’ column. See page 4
l Editorial-American freedom will
win over Nazi hatred. See Page 4
SKOKIE-Members of the National
Socialist (Nazi) Party of America plan
to march in Skokie on April 20-with
the law on their side.
The last substantial barrier to a Natative date of the first legal appearzi march was removed Thursday, Feb.
ance of the small southwest Chicago
23, when U.S. District Court Judge BerNazi group in Skokie, according to
nard Decker found unconstitutional
their spokesman, Michael Whalen.
three village ordinances which have
“We will continue to picket Skokie city
helped to avert such a demonstration
hall at our own whim until we get the
during the past 10 months,
right to speak everywhere unchallenged,” he said. Whalen said the NaAnd, although village officials indizis will carry signs demanding “Free
cated Thursday that they plan to ap
peal the decision, it is unlikely that
speech for white power” and possibly a
further legal action can prevent the
few others claiming that “Communism
is Jewish.”
march, according to David Hamlin, executive director of the American Civil
DECKER’S RULING overturned
Liberties Union (ACLU), which has
the ordinances, passed last May 2,
represented the Nazis in their efforts to
which require groups wising to demonstrate in Skokie to secure a $35O,OOO inparade in Skokie.
surance bond, and prohibit both the
April 20, the 89th anniversary of the
birth of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, is ten- wearing of military style uniforms by
members of political parties and the
distribution of materials which incite
group hatred.
Noting “the very grave danger
posed by public dissemination of doctrines of racial and religious hatred,”
Decker nonetheless maintained that
“It is better to allow those who preach
racial hate to expend their venom in
rhetoric than to be panicked into embarking on the dangerous course of
permitting the government to decide
what its citizens may say and hear.”
In a prepared statement distributed
at a press conference Thursday afternoon Skokie Mayor Albert Smith said
the village “will ask the courts to forestall any demonstration pending the
outcome of our appeal.”
CLAIMING THAT “Today’s decision ignores the First Amendment
rights of thousands in favor of the alleged rights of a few,” Smith repeated
his well-known stance that Nazism
does not deserve constitutional protections because it “Preaches hatred and
violence because of a person’s race or
national origin.”
According to Smith, the Nazi threat
during the past year has actually
created “an unprecedented unity of opinion among all of our residents, regardless of religious belief” which he
likened to the unity of spirit among the
founding fathers of the United States.
Ask to comment on the offer of Gov.
James Thompson to lead a counter-demonstration in Skokie on the day the
Nazis march, Smith said he is “happy
to have all the support I can get.” He
agreed with Thompson’s statement
that the neo-Nazi threat to the village
is “a moral outrage,” but added that
at present, no counter-demonstration is
being planned.
ADMITTING THAT his group is using the village for leverage in a sort of
Nazi free speech movement, Whalen
said their actual goal is to be premitted to rally in the areas where they already claim support-Marquette Park
and the south and northwest sides of
Chicago. Until that time, he said, “We
will continue to agitate in Skokie.”
According
Whalen, his organization’s national convention will be held
March 11 in St. Louis where rallies will
be held as a “warm-up for Skokie.”
Offering the ACLU position on
Decker’s decision, Hamlin said “To the
extent that the First Amendment has
been reaffirmed, we are gratified.
“I THINK THAT the First Amend-
ment all but dictated the response the
court handed down-if it doesn’t protect Frank Collin (Nazi leader) it protects no one ” he said
Hamlin said no significant legal obstacles stand in the way of a Nazi
march in Skokie, although a march
cannot be held immediately because of
a legal technicality regarding a Jan. 27
decision of the Illinois Supreme Court.
In that ruling, the court overturned a
swastika ban, but no appeal has been
filed yet by the village or by the AntiDefamation League of the B’nai B’rith
which was involved in a related suit.
According to Hamlin, the Nazis
could be prevented from marching during the appeal process only if the village requested and received a stay of
Decker’s ruling or “yet another injunction.”
“Weighing the evidence in this case
alone makes it highly unlikely that the
(Continued on page 3)
Nazis planning
Skokie march
(Continued from page 1)
demonstration would be prevented with
another court order,” he said.
If the Nazis make it to Skokie on
April 20, members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) say they will be
there also. Calling Decker’s ruling
“typical of the lack of responsibility
that the court system has shown...to
the holocaust survivors,” JDL spokesman Buzz Alpert stressed the need “to
come forward and make a stand as we
should have 40 years ago and maybe
we shall never have to make a stand
again.” Refusing to be more specific
Alpert said “We’ll be there, that’s all.”
SKOKIE BECAME a target of the
Nazis in December, 1976, when they
were not issued a rally permit by the
Skokie park district. They planned a
number of demonstrations in front of
Skokie village hall to protest the action
taken by the park district, but these
events were averted by Cook County
Circuit court injunctions and later by
the three ordinances. Decker’s ruling
is the most recent in a series of legal
battles which have reached both the Il- IIlinois and United States Supreme
Courts.
�THIS WAS THE SCENE Thursday at Skokie village hall, as Mayor Albert Smith
faced the media to explain what Skokie’s next move will be in the battle to k e e p
the Nazis out of Skokie.
S K O K I E MAYOR ALBERT Smith showed the determination of Skokie
to keep the Nazi march from taking place in Skokie. Smith told a
Thursday press conference that Skokie would appeal its latest court
setback.
�
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Skokie battles on in court : Nazis plan April 20 Skokie march
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Dubey, Diane
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Judge Bernard Decker finds Skokie Village ordinances unconstitutional, National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) plan march, and Village plans to appeal decision. Includes photograph of Mayor Albert Smith and interior of Skokie Village Hall.
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2/26/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Skokie Life, Sunday, February 26, 1978, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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By DIANE DUBEY
TV movie
will focus
on Skokie’s
Nazi battle
Staff Writer
THE NAZIS are heading
for Skokie
again - this time, on film.
Skokie’s traumatic year-and-a-halflong period of threatened neo-Nazi demonstrations, angry counter-rallies
and prolonged legal battles will be
committed to history formally next
spring when CBS-TV presents a 2½hour docudrama entitled “Skokie.”
Coming nearly three years after the
National Socialist (Nazi) Party of
America dropped plans to rally in
Skokie, the film, scheduled to air as
early as May, will focus on a fictional
family of Holocaust survivors living in
Skokie during the 1977-78 “siege.”
Danny Kaye already has been
signed to play Max Feldman, the Holocaust survivor who lives in Skokie with
his wife and teen-age daughter. Eli
Wallach was signed Tuesday, Oct. 28,
to portray Skokie Corporation Counsel
Harvey Schwartz, according to producer Robert “Buzz” Berger who said he
hopes to snare character actor Ed
Flanders for the role of Mayor Albert
J. Smith.
OTHERS WHOSE roles in the Skokie-Nazi conflict are part of the film include David Hamlin, then executive
director of ‘the Illinois chapter of the
American Civil Liberties Union; David
Goldberger, the ACLU attorney who
defended the Nazis’ First Amendment
rights; Frank Collin, the neo-Nazi leader who now is serving a seven-year prison term for taking indecent liberties
with a child; Skokie resident Sol Goldstein, a Holocaust survivor; Abbott Rosen, executive director of the Chicago
Anti-Defamation League; and Aryeh
Neier, ACLU national executive director from 1970 to 1978.
The script for “Skokie” was written
by Ernest Kinoy, chief script-writer for
“Boots” and writer of the screenplays
for the TV special, “The Henderson
Monster,” and “The Deadliest Season,” a CBS television movie.
Executive producer is Herbert
Brodkin and director is Herbert Wise.
THIS IS basically the story of what
happened in Skokie between 1977 and
THE CAST OF characters in “Skokie,” the made-for TV movie which
will begin filming next month, will read like a local “Who’s Who.”
Among those who will be portrayed are, from left, Skokie Mayor Albert
J. Smith, Corporation Counsel Harvey Schwartz and Sol Goldstein, a
Holocaust survivor. Schwartz, who will be played by Eli Wallach, said
this week he would have preferred either Robert Redford or Burt Reynolds.
1978,” Berger said Tuesday, Oct. 28. and the various people around him.”
Berger said representatives from
“We’ll deal with some of the court cases that came up...with the ACLU’s re- the production company had been in
presentation of Collin, with the reac- contact with all of the people who are
tions of a fictional family or survivors, to be portrayed in the movie - except
and with the reactions of the mayor
(Continued on page 3) 3)
�'Skokie' filming to begin Nov. 14
(Continued from page 1)
for Collin.
“We don’t intend to talk to Collin.
He’s a minor character. There’s nothing he could add that would be particularly insightful,” he said.
Shooting is to begin in Skokie on
Friday, Nov. 14 and continue through
mid-December, Berger said. He and
other members of the production company are expected to be in Skokie
Thursday and Friday, Oct. 30 and 31,
to scout local sites for filming and to
sign actors. By Tuesday, Nov. 4, they
will be back “for the duration,” he
said.
The Skokie thing was coming to a
head about that time and it looked like
the Nazis were about to march,” Berger recalled. “There was so much controversy that we knew this would make
a wonderful show.
“There were so many good and
wonderful people on both sides of the
argument, arguing valid points on both
sides and disagreeing all the way.
“There was so much conflict and
the basis of all good drama is conflict....I think this is an important show
to do because it is an example of the
American system working and working
at its best.”
DEVELOPMENT OF “Skokie” has
been in the works for more than two
years, ever since Brodkin and Berger
finished work on “Holocaust,” the NBC
mini-series which focused on the experiences of a German Jewish family under Nazi rule.
SCRIPTS ALREADY have been
sent to the principals who will be represented in the movie, Berger said.
He said several errors were pointed
out by Mayor Smith and, subsequently,
were changed.
‘“We’re not anxious to do a disser-
vice to Skokie or to Mayor Smith,” he
said.
Berger was asked Smith’s reaction
to having the Nazi controversary,
which generally is not considered one
of Skokie’s brightest moments,
dredged up once again.
“I don’t think there’s any way he
can avoid its being done without getting into another First Amendment
case and I think Smith’s a realist,”
said the producer.
Smith could not be reached for comment Tuesday, but Harvey Schwartz
said the mayor’s only concern was that
the community be portrayed fairly.
Schwartz said his own primary concern is avoiding any inconvenience to
the public during the filming. “It’s obvious we’re not going to have much to
say about the content,” he said.
IN KEEPING with network policy
for docudramas, a large number of
names will not be changed for the film,
a fact which isn’t particularly pleasing
to Berger.
While some pseudonyms will be
used - Harvey Schwartz will be transformed into a character called “Burt
Silverman” and David Goldberger will
become “Herb Lewison” - the names
of Rosen, Hamlin, Smith, Neier, Goldstein and Collin will not be changed.
Disturbed that the use of actors attempting to portray real people results
in dramatization, not documentary or
drama, Berger prefers that his movie
be based on “dramatic truth, not historic truth.”
But, since CBS “strongly suggests”
that Skokie remain Skokie, that filming
take place in the village and that as
many characters as possible keep their
real names, Berger said there wnwon’t
be too much guessing about who’s who
when “Skokie” comes to Skokie - and
to the country.
�
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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TV movie will focus on Skokie's Nazi battle
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Dubey, Diane
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Movie producer Robert Berger announces plans for "Skokie" film. Includes photographs of lead "characters" Albert Smith, Harvey Schwartz, and Sol Goldstein.
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10/30/1980
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Skokie (Motion picture)
Berger, Robert "Buzz"
Goldstein, Sol
Schwartz, Harvey
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Skokie Life, Thursday, October 30, 1980, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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eng
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Skokie Public Library, Reference Department
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Nazi unit wins go-ahead;
Skokie march bans voided
By Dennis D. Fisher
A federal judge ruled three Skokie ordinances unconstitutional Thursday, clearing
the way for neo-Nazis to hold a public demonstration in the suburb wearing military-type
uniforms with swastikas.
U.S. District Court Judge Bernard M. Decker said in a 55-page opinion that “it is better
to allow those who preach racial hate to expend their venom in rhetoric rather than to
be panicked into embarking on a dangerous
course of permitting the government to decide what its citizens may say and hear.”
A National Socialists Party of America
spokesman said a new march in Skokie has
been tentatively scheduled for April 20. which
would have been Adolf Hitler’s 89th birthday.
Decker made a lucid, scholarly review and
analysis of all the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court before voiding the Skokie laws.
He said the ordinances could not stand because of the First Amendment guarantee of
freedom of speech and public assembly and
the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee o f
equal protection of the laws for all persons.
The ordinances were hastily enacted by the
village board May 2 after Frank Collin and
his neo-Nazi followers were prevented by a
Circuit Court order from holding a demonstration in Skokie the previous day.
Of the village’s 70,000 residents, about 40,500 are Jewish and some are survivors of
World War II Nazi concentration camps.
One ordinance required that demonstrators
have a village permit and obtain public-liability and property-damage insurance.
Another ordinance barred the distribution
of racial and religious hate material. A third
ordinance prevented persons wearing military-style uniforms and symbols like the
swastika from demonstrating in Skokie.
The ordinances provided criminal penalties
for violation.
Skokie Mayor Albert J. Smith said at a
press conference in the village hall Thursday:
“Another step in the legal process has been
taken. However, it is far from the final step
as far as the Village of Skokie is concerned.
We strongly disagree with today’s decision,
We are morally, ethically and legally bound to
take every recourse at our disposal to have
Judge Decker’s decision reversed. We will appeal.”
Asked if he anticipated violence if the neoNazis did march in Skokie, the mayor said:
“Violence begets violence begets violence
begets violence.”
But he added: “Our police force would he
obligated to uphold the law.”
When Collin tried to obtain a permit for a
planned July 4 march in the suburb, village
officials refused to issue it.
Collin, with the assistance of the American
Civil Liberties Union, filed suit in federal
court seeking to void the ordinances and to
prevent their enforcement by court order.
Decker granted what the ACLU sought.
David Goldberger, an ACLU attorney, said
he was relieved by Decker’s opinion. “The
First Amendment has not been damaged as
the result of a highly emotional case,” he
said.
The ordinances were found to be void because Decker said they were ambiguous,
vague and overbroad and provided no avenue of appeal for the denial of a permit.
Decker also held that the ordinances impinged directly and indirectly on the fundamental right of free speech and open debate
on all issues.
The Village of Skokie had argued that the
type of speech Collin and his followers would
use in a demonstration was like “shouting
fire in a crowded theater.” This is not protected by the First Amendment, Skokie officials noted.
On the insurance requirement for the permit, Decker noted that it would cost $1,000 for
the premium, which he said was “beyond the
reach of plaintiffs.”
He concluded on the insurance question that
the ordinances imposed a “drastic restriction” on the right of free speech “in the guise
of a regulation.”
The judge said the Skokie ordinance barring racial slurs in public demonstrations
“punishes language which intentionally incites hatred.” He said the standard involved
is too subjective under recent Supreme Court
decisions.
“A society which values ‘uninhibited, robust and wide-open’ debate cannot permit
criminal sanctions to turn upon so fine a distinction,” said Decker.
He also said the Skokie ordinance punishes
the mere dissemination of material that incites hatred, including such passive activity
as leafleting or wearing symbolic clothing.
“The requirement that speech poses an imminent danger of violence before it may be
suppressed is relaxed to a great extent when
the speech serves no useful social purpose,
but (the ordinance) seeks to dispense with the
requirement entirely, and this it may not do,”
the judge said.
“In resolving this case in favor of the plaintiffs, the court is acutely aware of the very
grave dangers posed by public dissemination
of doctrines of racial and religious hatred,”
Decker observed, adding: “In this case, a
small group of zealots, openly professing to
be followers of Nazism, have succeeded in
exacerbating the emotions of a large segment
Of the citizens of the Village of Skokie who
are bitterly opposed to their views and revolted by the prospect of their public appearance.
“When feelings and tensions are at their
highest peak, it is a temptation to reach for
the exception to the rule announced by Mr.
Justice Holmes: ‘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.’
“The ability of American society to tolerate
the advocacy even of the hateful doctrines
espoused by the plaintiffs without abandoning
its commitment to freedom of speech and assembly is perhaps the best protection we
have against the establishment of any Nazitype regime in this country,” Decker wrote.
The original Circuit Court order banning
the May 1 march was appealed to the Illinois
Appellate Court, which ruled in July that the
march could take place but that swastikas
could not be worn.
The swastika ban was then appealed to the
lllinois Supreme Court, which ruled the ban
unconstitutional Jan. 27.
On the same day, the Illinois Supreme
Court dismissed an injunction to prevent the
march obtained in Circuit Court on behalf of
Sol Goldstein as a class representative of survivors of the holocaust residing in Skokie.
The U.S. Supreme Court had entered the
dispute on a purely procedural question June
14, when it instructed the state to move rapidly in ruling on the validity of the injunction or
to lift the iniunction pending such a ruling.
The following statement was issued Thursday by Raymond Epstein, chairman of the
public affairs committee of the Chicago Jewish Fund:
“It would be a monstrous travesty for the
courts of thi s land to rule that an obscene
spectacle should be held under the guise of
our First Amendment freedoms, which we,
the Jewish community of Chicago, hold equally dear.
“The Jewish community of Chicago hopes
that the Village of Skokie will continue its
efforts to overturn the decision of the U.S.
District Court that would enable the Nazis to
deliberately provoke the citizens of Skokie
and the many others who would be grievously
offended by the march.
“However, should all legal means fail, the
Jewish community would co-operate fully
with the Village of Skokie and peoples of
other faiths in framing a nonviolent response
more in keeping with what our founding fathers had in mind when they drafted the Bill
of Rights.”
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Skokie Public Library
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Nazi unit wins go-ahead- Skokie march bans voided
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Fisher, Dennis D.
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U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Decker rules Skokie ordinances unconstitutional, enabling National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) to march.
Date
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2/24/1978
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Epstein, Raymond
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Chicago Sun-Times, Friday, February 24, 1978, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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cst780224a.pdf
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eng
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newspaper clippings
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Speaking out against Nazis
Virginia Gardner, of Arlington Heights, presents Skokie Mayor Albert J. Smith with a batch
of 2,600 letters and statements from persons across the nation protesting the planned June
25 Skokie march by a neo-Nazi group. Looking on at Smith’s office are John Matzer
(standing, right), village manager, and Harvey Schwartz, Skokie corporation counsel.
“Whether the march occurs or not, it is my personal opinion that great numbers of people
should speak out and let their feelings be known,” said Gardner. (Sun-Times Photo by Jim
Frost)
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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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Speaking out against Nazis [captioned photograph]
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Frost, Jim
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Photograph of Virginia Gardner presenting letters protesting the planned National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) march in Skokie to Mayor Albert Smith. Harvey Schwartz and John Matzer are shown, as well.
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6/3/1978
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
National Socialist Party of America -- Public opinion
Gardner, Virginia
Matzer, John
Schwartz, Harvey
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Chicago Sun-Times, Saturday, June 3, 1978, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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eng
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Skokie’s treason
The Skokie government can be justifiably proud of its many accomplishments to be recognized as an AllAmerica City (The LIFE, Aug. 31). But
to “use” the “citizens’ anti-Nazi fight”
borders on treason.
I was one of the many who wrote to
Skokie Mayor Albert Smith objecting
to the march. In my Jan. 31st letter, I
asked that if the endeavors fail, was it
possible to obtain an injunction against
the rabbi who said that he would
‘guarantee” trouble if they would
march.
In that connection, I wondered if the
courts would consider the village board
as co-conspirators if they did NOT do
everything possible to stop a riot. As
an answer, our government tried to
circumvent the court’s constitutional
ruling by virtually inviting anti-Nazis
to Skokie.
Instead of All-America City, the
mayor should be cited for being an AllAmerica politician. Just when he
should have been objective about the
problem, he accepted an anti-Nazi
group’s man of the year award!
Now that the village has resurrected a dead horse, maybe they can answer a few questions. When the Nazi
group was awarded a permit an antiNazi group was also awarded a permit
to have a counter-demonstration on
Nilehi District 219 property. Did the
school board ever vote to give them
permission?
Although I am reluctant to admit it,
the American Nazi party does not have
a history of starting a riot, whereas the
anti-Nazi elements do. Therefore, why
did the government plan to close down
the village business district to its own
residents rather than seek an injunction against those individuals who
“guarantee” us trouble and those who
plan to spill blood on our streets?
Finally, in 1977, I wrote the mayor
asking why the police considered it
necessary to confiscate several items
from people who crossed state lines to
attend a meeting prior to the planned
march (The LIFE, July 21, 1977). In
answer, corporation counsel stated:
“Our police are also in contact with
state and federal authorities to insure
against violation of applicable state
and federal laws...”
If a riot had ensued, would they
have been guilty of a federal crime by
participating in a riot?
Albert C. Geimer
Skokie
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Skokie History
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Skokie's treason
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Geimer, Albert C.
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Skokie resident criticizes Mayor Albert Smith.
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9/7/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Skokie Life, Thursday, September 7, 1978, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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editorials and opinions
newspaper clippings
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Announce crowd control plans
Smith answers JDL charge
by Ellen Herdeck
His voice filled with emotion and fatigue,
Skokie’s Mayor Albert Smith answered a
charge by Jacob Berg, corporate
secretary of the Illinois Jewish Defense
League (JDL), that Skokie “gave up” the
fight against a planned demonstration
planned here Sunday by the National
Socialist (Nazi) party of America.
Speaking at Monday night’s village
board meeting, Smith said “for anyone to
walk into this room with these prople and
say we haven’t tried is unbelievable to
me.”
Smith’s comments seemed especially
pertinent in a personal way, as he had just
been released from Evanston’s St. Francis
hospital after suffering chest pains
Wednesday while at work. The mayor had
also undergone open heart surgery earlier
this year, returning to work after several
months of rest.
“If any of you have the time to come to
my office, you’ll see that I’m way behind in
my work. There are 150 pieces of
correspondence form persons standing
with us in this fight that are going
unanswered,” he said.
These people, including congregations of
Christians, are standing shoulder-toshoulder with the people of Skokie, Smith
continued. Of the 1,000 letters I have
received, less than 25 have not been
supportive,” he added.
The mayor said he was proud of the
community and his fellow elected officials,
“who have waged a tough, mean, difficult
battle.” He also acknowledged “the two
good state senators John Nimrod (R-4th)
and Howard Carroll (D-15) who introduced
a bill in Springfield to stop the
demonstration and were rebuffed.”
The measure, Senate Bill 18-11, was
passed by the Senate but tabled in the
House June 15.
Mayor Smith made the impromotu
speech after breaking up an arguement
between the village trustee Morris Topol
and Berg. Topol jumped out of his seat
while telling Berg that Skokie “had been
fighting the demonstration for 18 months,
just ask Sol Goldstein,”
“I’m as much a good Jew as you are. I
did my job,” Topol said.
Berg also accused Skokie corporation
counselor Harvey Schwartz of not
exhausting every legal channel to prevent
the planned Nazi demonstration.
“If the Chicago park district passed an
ordinance requiring a bond, why didn’t
you?”, Berg asked.
Berg did not mention that a Skokie
ordinance, invalidated this psring by the
US District Court, contained a provision
for a $350,000 bond for any group planning
to demonstrate within the village.
The decision to invalidate the Skokie
ordinance, which also prohibited persons
from wearing military style uniforms or
distributing defammatory literature, was
upheld by the Supreme Court of Illinois
and the Seventh US District Court of
Appeals.
Skokie also asked the US Supreme Court
to stay the march permit until the case
could be judged on free speech grounds,
sometime later this year. The Supreme
Court refused to stay the permit and said
they would not rearrange their agenda to
give the case an early hearing.
Schwartz asked Berg why the JDL didn’t
file a lawsuit against the Neo-Nazi group,
adding that Jewish leader Goldstein did,
on behalf of the Holocaust survivors in
Skokie.
Berg said the militant group did not have
the money. He continued to press his point,
asking the board why Schwartz did not
appoint an outside prosecutor to conduct
the legal battle.
“Did his ego get in the way?“, the JDL
spokesman asked.
In a partial answer to Berg’s remarks, a
member of Skokie’s Janusz Korshack
lodge said he “thanked the village for their
efforts. “Let’s have it and get it over with,
he said, “It is our sacred duty to be here at
the hall and face them.”
Announce crowd plan
Mayor Smith then announced plans by
state and local police to create two
perimeters within Skokie on June 25. One
would prevent any counter-demonstrators
to be on the village steps with the Nazis
the other permieter, which would extend
for several blocks in the village, would
prevent most vehicular traffic.
A spokesman later revealed that the
perimeter around the village hall would be
flexible, but the one limiting vehicular
traffic would extend from Main street
south to Howard and from Skokie
boulevard (Route 41) west to the Edens
expressway.
The barrier between the Nazis and
counter-demonstrators drew criticism
from several residents, most of who
thought they should be able to be on the
village steps with the group.
“You won’t have enough police to stop
us,” one residents said.
Smith cautioned residents that “the
whole country has us on trial”.
“If we deliberately come here to break
the law, then we should have no complaint
when somebody breaks the law against
us,” he said.
“On Monday, June 26, I want the people
in this country to say, ‘what a helluva town
Skokie is; the people there have been to
hell and come back with class,” Smith
added.
Sources revealed that police protection
Sunday will include a contingent of the
Illinois national Guard and the state
police, as well as Skokie police and officers
from thirteen surrounding communities.
At press time, all plans for Sunday were
tenative, however, because Federal
District Court Judge Leighton ruled that
the Neo-Nazis did not have to post a $60,000
insurance bond that was requested by the
Chicago park district before they would
grant a permit for a march in Marquette
Park.
Nazi leader Frank Collins had stated
Monday that if the bond requirement was
waived the group may call off the Skokie
demonstration and march later this
summer on the south side.
The only legal impediment left in the
Skokie case appeard to be a suit filed by
Lou Black, Skokie resident, who was suing
the village for granting the Nazis a permit
to march. Black’s suit alleged that since
the National Socialist Party of Illinois was
not a registered corporation in the state,
they cannot legally ‘do business’ with
another corporate entity.
Counsel Schwartz said the law that
Black was using, the Illinois Assumed
Names Act, was found in case law to apply
to commercial transactions. In two cases,
it was found that no-compliance with the
act does not prevent plaintiffs from going
to court to plead their civil rights,
Schwartz added.
In other words, it appeared that
regulatory acts do not apply to free speech
cases, he said.
Sol Goldstein then said Mayor Smith was
“a great hope to all of us who rely on you.”
He also encouraged residents to stick
together, having a “commitment to six
million Jews and to a free society where
there is no room for killing, hatred and
racism.”
Goldstein is one of the persons
organizing the counter-demonstration that
will be held at either Niles West or East
high school. Over 50,000 persons of many
faiths are expected to attend the
demonstration, where 60-100 religious
leaders will stand in vigil and recite the
Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead.
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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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Announce crowd control plans : Smith answers JDL charge
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Jacob Berg, of the Illinois Jewish Defense League (JDL), accuses President Al Smith and other Skokie village officials of "giving up" on the fight against a proposed march by the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis). Skokie's plans for Nazi demonstration and JDL's counterdemonstration are described.
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6/22/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Smith, officials lauded
at Temple Judea rally
By CHARLENE LOUIS
Correspondent
SKOKIE-A crowd of about 400 persons at a rally
in the parking lot of Temple Judea, Sunday, May 1,
paid tribute to Mayor Albert Smith and other village
authorities for keeping the Nazis out of Skokie the day
before. The Nazis had been thwarted in their effort to
march in Skokie over the weekend when the village
twice won injunctions to keep them out. The march
had originally been scheduled for Sunday, but was
switched to Saturday after the first court order banning any demonstration. The Nazis tried to come on
Saturday, but village officials obtained a second court
order.
Organized as a prelude to the Nazis original plan
to come to Skokie, Sunday afternoon, the rally became
as much a victory celebration as “a reaffirmation of
trust in the legel system, respect for human rights,
and non-violence,” as it was billed.
SOL GOLDSTEIN, LEADER of the Jewish survivors of the Nazi holocaust, praised village authorities
“for doing the maximum of what human beings can do
in such a situation and being successful.”
The Nazis were served with an injunction banning
their planned rally in front of Skokie village hall, as
they attempted to enter the village.
Smith, in particular was cited by Goldstein, “as a
man of greatness, who has warned the Nazis they will
never succeed in marching here.”
Smith in turn lauded Jack Matzer village manager
and his assistant William Brady for guiding the village
response to the Nazi threat “under most extreme circumstances.”
Smith gave a little background about his personal
determination to keep the Nazis out.
He told the crowd when the holocaust was going on
during World War II, he was a young man. “But my
government leaders,” he said, “didn’t think enough of
my ability to judge things for myself, to inform me
what was going on in Europe.”
“For that I feel a responsibility for the Jewish people,” he said.
DR. VICTOR ROSENBLUM, a professor of constitutional law at Northwestern University, spoke about
why Nazi marches are not protected by the same
rights as are marches in behalf of civil rights groups,
“as the American Civil Liberties Union would have us
believe.”
“The reason,” he said, “is, the Nazis, in their paraphenalia, identify with a movement in world history
that stood for the wiping out of constitutional rights.
That destructive message is not protected by our Bill
of Rights,” he insisted.
Rosenblum pledged to make evey effort to see the
law understands this difference.
“THIS IS A TIME OF great pride and great solidarity,” Rabbi David Polish of Evanston said. “We
told the survivors of the holocaust they are not alone.
We are there beside them.”
Rev. Warren Thummel, pastor of St. Timothy’s
Lutheran Church, Skokie, added: “Right now I’ve got
one of the most secure feelings I’ve ever had. Here I
am one of many in a large gathering of neighbors, who
care about each other.”
“We can no longer be silent to such threats,” Rabbi Milton Kanter of Skokie Valley Traditional Synagogue, said. “The nightmare won’t go away by
inaction,”
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Smith, officials lauded at Temple Judea rally
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At a rally held at Temple Judea Mitzpah, Albert Smith and other village officials are praised for their efforts to prevent the National Socialist Party of America (Nazi party) from holding a demonstration in Skokie.
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5/5/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
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Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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•NBC Memo
Debris MeBain
Mayor Smith:
Per our conversation, attached is
text of Nazi Court Ruling Editorial.
I have set aside tape time for you for
Tuesday, March 7, 1978 at 11:00 a.m.
If there is a problem with this date &
time, please do not hesitate to give me
a call.
If your text is prepared on Monday, it
could be taken down via phone by
me and typed for teleprompter on
Tuesday when you arrive. In any case,
I will need the text by 9a30 a/m
Tuesday.
�Federal Judge Bernard Decker has ruled that Skokie ordinances that
were designed to prevent Nazis from demonstrating in that suburb are
unconstitutional.
One quote from the judge's decision is particularly significant. "It
is better/1 he said, n to allow those who preach racial hate to expend
their venom in rhetoric rather than to be panicked into embarking on a
dangerous course of permitting the government to decide what its citizens
may say and hear."
It is certainly understandable that the people of Skokie, most of whom
are Jewish, find hateful the doctrine preached by the Nazis.
And they are fearful that violence that has accompanied previous
Nazi marches could result in their community. But violence most often
involves two sides. Allowing the Nazis to march in Skokie will result in
no disturbances if they are left alone and ignored.
The idea of a counter demonstration somewhere else is fine. Let the
people of Skokie express their feelings in their own peaceful way.
Naturally they have a right to do that which is protected by the First
Amendment.
• •• •
But, hard as it may be for us to accept the idea, Nazis rights are
protected too.
American freedoms are diminished unless they can withstand the
tough tests, like the question of Nazi punks marching with swastikas
in Skokie.
But as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, the First Amendment
protects free thought — "not free thought for those who agree with us
but freedom for the thought we hate."
(This editorial was broadcast February 25 & 27, 1978.)
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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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Typewritten note to Mayor Albert Smith from Deloris MeBain of the local NBC television affiliate in Chicago. The note regards setting up a time for Smith to record a statement in response to an attached NBC Editorial. The note contains handwritten notes about the location, about changing the dates and about cancelling. The attached editorial, which aired on February 25, 1978 and February 27, 1978, addresses the ruling by Judge Bernard Decker that the Skokie ordinances were unconstitutional.
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03-00-1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America -- Press coverage
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Skokie eyes changes
in Jewish counter-rally
By Phillip J. O’Connor
Skokie officials have been quietly trying
to change plans for a counterdemonstration
in Skokie during a planned Nazi rally next
Sunday to keep the two groups at least a
few blocks apart.
Village officials acted at the urging of
state officials seeking to reduce the chances
of violence during the Nazi demonstration in
front of the suburb’s Village Hall.
Tentative plans for the peaceful counterdemonstration, which the sponsoring Jewish
umbrella group expects to draw 50,000 persons, call for holding an outdoor meeting at
one of the three public high schools in
Skokie.
The counterdemonstration is scheduled to
end with a march to the Village Hall, where
125 to 150 leaders of the counterdemonstration plan to read the names of Nazi holocaust victims and to recite prayers.
IT IS THE MARCH to the Village Hall,
while the uniformed Nazis are still demonstrating, that state officials oppose because
they believe it could trigger violence.
The counterdemonstration is currently
scheduled to be held at Niles East Twp. High
School, located three blocks from the Village
Hall. Law-enforcement officials said they
would prefer using Niles West High, about
eight blocks away.
Another possibility mentioned by officials
would be to change the time of the counter-
�Skokie weighs rally changes
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demonstration so that the Nazis and counterdemonstrators would not be acting at the
same time.
PRESIDENT ALBERT J. SMITH of Skokie
Said he has been assured by Gov. ThompSon’s office that the state police and Illinois
National Guard will be available if needed.
Tyrone C. Hahner, director of the Illinois
Department of Law Enforcement, when
asked about security plans, said, “We’ll have
as many men as necessary to keep the peace.
If that means state police and National
Guardsmen, so be it. We have several alternate plans set up.”
Nazi leaders said again Sunday that the
might call off the Skokie rally if they win
favorable ruling Tuesday from U.S. District
Court Judge George N. Leighton, permitting
them to hold rallies in Chicago parks at will
without posting insurance liability bonds.
�
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Skokie Public Library
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Skokie eyes change in Jewish counter-rally
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O'Connor, Phillip J.
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Village officials act to prevent violence between National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) and counterdemonstrators in a possible rally in Skokie.
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6/19/1978
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Chicago Sun-Times, Monday, June 19, 1978, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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cst780619a.pdf
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eng
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1970s (1970-1979)
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newspaper clippings
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Attempted Nazi March in Skokie, 1977 and 1978, Digital Collection
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Skokie Public Library
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Resolution from Skokie Village Board of Trustees, April 9, 1979
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Village of Skokie. Board of Trustees
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Resolution from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees resolving that the Village officials call upon German officials to extend the statute of limitations on war crimes in Germany during the Holocaust. The document is signed by William Siegel, Village Clerk and Albert J. Smith, Mayor of Skokie. From the collection of Rabbi Neil Brief.
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4/9/1979
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Skokie Village Board of Trustees
Holocaust survivors
National Socialist Party of America
Skokie (Ill.) -- Politics and government
World War, 1939-1945
Schmidt, Helmut, 1918-2015
Siegel, William
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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rnb_790409a.pdf
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eng
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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>
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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
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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.
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3/12/1981
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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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Skokie Public Library, Reference Department
newspaper clippings
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For the Seventh Circuit
Chicago, Illinois 60604
June 2
f
1978' !
Before
Hon.
WILBUR F. PELL, Circuit Judge
Hon.
ROBERT A. SPRECHER, Circuit Judge*
Hon.
HARLINGTON WOOD, JR^. Circuit^ Judge
FRANK COLLIN, et al.,
Plaintiffs-Appellees ,
VS.
No. 78-1385
ALBERT SMITH, et al.,
Defendants-Appellants*
Appeal from the United
States District Court
for the Northern Dis'trict of Illinois,
Eastern Division.
No. 77-C-2982
Bernard M. Decker9 Judge,
ORDER
This matter is before the court on the motion of
defendants-appellants for a stay of mandate pending application
to the Supreme Court of the United States for a writ of
certiorari.
In their accompanying suggestions in support of the motionr
the appellants place primary emphasis upon various statements
attributed to the prevailing appellees subsequent to this
court's decision which in essence challenge the good faith of
the appellees in seeking the right to march in Skokie* It is
notedf however, on the other hand that reports in the local
media indicate that the Village of Skokie authorities have
* Judge Sprecher would grant the motion to stay and therefore
dissents from the issuance of the above order.
�Appeal No. 78-1385
Page 2
granted a counter-demonstration permit for June 25, the day on
which the appellees seek to march, to the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Chicago.
. »
However, whatever all of this may be in factf and
irrespective of what maneuvering the parties may be engaging in
with regard to a particular date for marching and
demonstrating, the basic issue in litigation which is before
this court remains that of the constitutionality of the three
Skokie ordinances. That issue has been decided against the
appellants. We are not persuaded that the appellants have
demonstrated a specific substantiated showing for a stay of
mandate pursuant to Circuit Rule 17, particularly in view of
the impact that delay has on the exercise of First Amendment
rights. We note that unless the mandate is stayed it will be
issued by this court on June 12, 1978. That issuance date will
allow sufficient time for the appellants to seek a stay in the
Supreme Court of the United States.
Accordingly, the motion for stay of mandate is denied and
the clerk of this court is directed to issue the mandate in
this cause on June 12, 1978.
�
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Attempted Nazi March in Skokie, 1977 and 1978, Digital Collection
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Skokie Public Library
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Collin v. Smith, Docket No. 78-1385, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Order
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An order for a stay of mandate is denied in the case of an appeal brought forth by Albert Smith, et al. to the Seventh Circuit Court. Judges Wilbur F. Pell, Robert Sprecher and Harlington Wood, Jr. decided that the village's ordinances were unconstitutional. The denial of the stay of mandate meant that the previous decision would proceed as previously decided. It is suggested in the document that the date the mandate would be issued would still allow enough time for the defendants to appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
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6/2/1978
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America -- Trials, litigation, etc.
District Courts -- Illinois
Ordinances, Municipal -- Illinois -- Skokie
Collin, Frank
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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2004.002.075.pdf
Skokie Historical Society 2004.002.075.001, .002
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Pell, Wilbur F.
Sprecher, Robert A.
Wood, Jr., Harlington
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eng
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2 p.
court documents
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Movie, movie
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION.
The neo-Nazis were threatening to march on Skokie again, but this time
not many people were upset and some were actually thrilled. For this time, it
wasn’t for real . . . but rather for “reel” as CBS-TV came to town, bringing
with it Danny Kaye, Lee Strasberg, Carl Reiner and an assortment of other
well-known actors.
A docudrama, scheduled for airing on television in the spring, was being
made about the 1977-78 controversy over whether Nazis should be able to
march in a community where so many Holocaust survivors live.
And “extras” were being sought for many of the scenes. Residents lined
up, bringing photos with them. Some were chosen and some were not. Those
who got to play a part, however small, will probably remember it for the rest
of their lives . . . and they eagerly await the final product to see if they will
end up on the cutting room floor.
Come spring, “Skokie” will once again become a household word across
the nation.
THE JEWISH DEFENSE league and others demonstrate against the
planned neo-Nazi march outside Village Hall, in a scene from the docudrama.
CENTREAST, AT THE OLD Niles East High School, is the setting for a scene of
a board meeting of the American Civil Liberties Union.
�CHARACTER ACTOR ED Flanders portrays Skokie Mayor Albert
Smith in a scene shot in the council chambers in Village Hall.
BETWEEN SCENES AT TEMPLE Judea Mitzpah are film producer Buzz Berger and Skokie Mayor Smith, visiting the set.
�
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Attempted Nazi March in Skokie, 1977 and 1978, Digital Collection
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Skokie History
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Skokie Public Library
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Movie, movie
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Photographs of filming of "Skokie" movie. Includes photograph of scene of protesters, photograph of meeting at Centreast, photograph of Ed Flanders, who portrays Mayor Albert Smith, and a photograph of Albert Smith and Samuel "Buzz" Berger.
Date
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1/22/1981
Subject
The topic of the resource
Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Skokie (Motion picture)
Berger, Samuel
Flanders, Ed
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Skokie Life, Thursday, January 22, 1981, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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©Lerner Publications
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csl810122a.pdf
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eng
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1970s (1970-1979)
1980s (1980-1989)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Skokie Public Library, Reference Department
newspaper clippings
skokie movie
tv movie