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One of the most noted moments in the ACLU’s history occurred in 1978 when the ACLU defended a Nazi group that wanted to rally through the Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois, where many Holocaust ...
As a young lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, David Goldberger defended the rights of Nazis to hold a demonstration in Skokie, Ill., a village that was home to many Jewish residents ...
In 1978, it famously represented a Nazi group that wanted to hold a march in Skokie, Illinois, which included a large Jewish population and many Holocaust survivors. Some ACLU members resigned ...
When I asked this former staffer if they thought today’s ACLU would still defend the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois, the landmark ACLU case of 1977, they said “yes” but with ...
The ACLU makes much of its successful defense of the American Nazi Party's right to march in Skokie, Illinois, a pyrrhic victory (the Nazis never marched, and the ACLU lost many members and financial ...