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LIFE NEWSPAPERS, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1977
Turn back 30
Nazis at Touhy
By ROBERT FEDER
Correspondent
SKOKIE- Thirty American Nazis were turned
back by Skokie police Saturday, April 30, moments before they were to have staged a rally on the steps of
village hall.
The members of the National Socialist Party of
America, dressed in full Nazi uniform including swastika armbands and high black boots, were halted while
exiting the Edens expressway at Touhy avenue and notified that a court order signed two hours earlier
banned their planned demonstration.
The injunction was hastily drafted Saturday morning by village attorneys and signed by Circuit Court
Judge Harold Sullivan in his Skokie home.
Circuit Court Judge Joseph Wosik Thursday, April
28, issued a similar order banning the demonstration
originally set for Sunday, May 1. The Illinois Appellate
court upheld Wosik’s injunction Friday, April 29, but
the Nazis apparently hoped to circumvent the ruling
by appearing on Saturday instead.
After police handed Sullivan’s restraining order to
the Nazis, the group returned in four vehicles to its
Southwest Side Chicago headquarters. The Nazis then
said they would be back in Skokie for a demonstration
at 3 p.m. on May 22.
MEANWHILE, ABOUT 300 counter-demonstrators
waited in front of village hall, 5127 Oakton, protesting
the expected arrival of the Nazi band. Many of the
Jews in the crowd had come directly from their synagogs, after learning during Sabbath services that the
Nazi rally had been rescheduled for that afternoon.
Signs carried by persons in the crowd included references to World War II concentration camps or the
slogan “Smash the Nazis.”
Even after Mayor Albert Smith told the counter-demonstrators that the Nazis had been turned back by
the injunction, many of them remained after 3 p.m.,
when the Nazis were to have arrived.
Skokie reportedly was targeted for Nazi activity
because of the village’s large Jewish population. About
40,500 of the 70,000 residents are Jewish and some 7,000
are survivors of the Nazi holocaust of World War II.
Under pressure from local Jewish organizations,
vlllage officials last week sought the court orders because they claimed Nazi demonstrations were intended
to incite violent confrontations and posed a danger to
the “health, safety and welfare of the community.”
ATTORNEYS FROM THE American Civil Liberties union (ACLU) representing the Nazis argued that
actions by the village to bar the rally abridged First
Amendment constitutional rights of free speech and
assembly.
Nazi leaders claimed their village hall rally was
designed to protest a Skokie park district refusal to
permit use of park facilities without $350,000 in liability
insurance.
Sullivan’s injunction, which Skokie Corp. Counsel
Harvey Schwartz called “almost identical” to the one
issued earlier by Wosik, banned the Nazis from:
“Marching, walking or parading in the uniform
of the National Socialist Party of America.
“Marching, walking, parading or otherwise displaying the swastika on or off their person.
“Distributing pamphlets or displaying any materials which incite or promote hatred against persons
of Jewish faith or ancestry or hatred against persons
of any faith or ancestry, race or religion.”
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SCHWARTZ SAID THE village would continue to
monitor the plans of the Nazis.
THE tension outside Skokie
kie village hall on Saturday was evident in the
face of Mayor Albert
Smith as he used this bullhorn to tell the large
crowd that 30 Nazi demonstrators had been turned
back at the village borders. The riot-helmeted
Skokie police on hand
grimly watched the scene
(below).
Section One-Page Three
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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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Turn back 30 Nazis at Touhy
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Feder, Robert
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Circuit Court Judge Harold Sullivan issues an injunction preventing National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) from demonstrating in Skokie on April 30, 1977.
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5/5/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Skokie Life, Thursday, May 5, 1977, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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csl770505c.pdf
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eng
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1970s (1970-1979)
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newspaper clippings