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 ...

“It was inevitable that the ACLU would defend the 1st Amendment in Skokie,” its director David Hamlin wrote in a Tribune op-ed. “The ACLU is more than 55 years old, and it has defended the ...

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 ...

The case dragged on for months, as Skokie passed a series of ordinances designed to block the neo-Nazis right to assemble. Attacks against the ACLU grew more vitriolic, with the Chicago office ...

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 ...

A classic case is National Socialist Party v. Skokie (1977), in which the American Civil Liberties Union represented neo-Nazis who had been enjoined from holding a demonstration in an Illinois ...

The league was one of the groups that fought the American Civil Liberties Union when the civil rights organization assisted the Nazis in its attempt to march in Skokie in 1977. The ACLU is not ...